Stable Gain-Guided Soliton Propagation in a Polarized Yb-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

M. E. V. Pedersen; E. J. R. Kelleher; J. C. Travers; Z. Sun; T. Hasan; A. C. Ferrari; S. V. Popov; J. R. Taylor

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2202314

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2012)

Stable Gain-Guided Soliton Propagation in a Polarized Yb-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

M. E. V. Pedersen,
E. J. R. Kelleher,
J. C. Travers,
Z. Sun,
T. Hasan,
A. C. Ferrari,
S. V. Popov,
J. R. Taylor

Affiliations

M. E. V. Pedersen: <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{1}$</tex></formula>Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, U.K.
E. J. R. Kelleher: Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, U.K.
J. C. Travers: Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London , U.K.
Z. Sun: Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.
T. Hasan: Department of Engineering , University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.
A. C. Ferrari: Department of Engineering , University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
S. V. Popov: Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London , U.K.
J. R. Taylor: Femtosecond Optics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London , U.K.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2202314
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 3
pp. 1058 – 1064

Abstract

Read online

We demonstrate gain-guided dissipative soliton operation of a linearly polarized Yb-doped fiber laser, mode-locked by carbon nanotubes. In the regime of low nonlinear phase shift per cavity roundtrip, a dissipative soliton pulse can be supported by the finite gain bandwidth, without the need for strong spectral selection. The gain-guiding dynamics are confirmed by simulations.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
Website: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563994

About the journal

Abstract

Keywords