Dissipative soliton resonance in an all-normaldispersion erbium-doped fiber laser

Wu, Xuan; Tang, Dewei; Zhang, H; Zhao, Lei

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“…This means that the generated pulse is highly-chirped in agreement with the all-normal-dispersion nonlinear dynamics studied recently for mode-locked fibre lasers with standard cavity lengths [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Note that no special narrow band filter limiting laser radiation spectrum was used in a stable mode-locked operation, unlike the regimes reported in [16,19].…”

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“…However, intensity is limited by the soliton conditions and too high intensity of radiation leads to the generation of multiple solitons and their nonregular interactions in the presence of noise. Recently it was revealed that the mode locking of fibre lasers can also be achieved in the normal dispersion regime [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. The recently discovered all normal dispersion generation regime is based on the interplay of the cavity dispersion, the Kerr nonlinearity and the gain.…”

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Mode-locking in 25-km fibre laser

Ivanenko

Turitsyn

Kobsev

et al. 2010

36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication

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We demonstrate passive mode-locking and single pulse generation in a fibre laser with a record-setting cavity length of 25 km. Substantial increase in the pulse round trip duration leads to ultra-low repetition rate of 8.097 kHz and the pulse energy of 3.7 µJ.PACS numbers: 42.55. Wd, 42.60.Fc, 42.60.Da, 42.60.By Nowadays, lasers have become ubiquitous devices equally important in fundamental science, engineering technologies and in a range of practical applications. In the last decade there has been a revolutionary progress in laser science fuelled by advances in high-power systems, ultra-short pulse lasers and oscillators with high pulse energy. The progress was driven by a variety of new important applications that these advanced laser systems can open-up. This expansion has been facilitated by continuous advances in material science, achievements in technology and by the improvement in our understanding of the fundamental laser principles and physical effects underlying the operation and performance of new types of lasers. In particular, laser designs based on new physical concepts offer opportunities for creating systems with non-incremental changes of performance characteristics leading to disruptive progress. In this work we outline a new direction in development of pulsed lasers, by demonstrating a dramatic increase of the cavity length for modelocking fibre lasers to a record 25 km which corresponds to the cavity optical length of 37.05 km. Our result provides insight in design possibilities which may allow for non-incremental progress in laser technology by pulse energy up-scaling using very long cavities.The length of the resonator is, indeed, an important design parameter in mode-locked laser being responsible for repetition rate of generated pulses and their per-pulse energy. Higher per-pulse energy p E of the output in mode-locked lasers (at the same average power ave P of radiation) may be achieved by direct extension of the laser cavity, since(c is the speed of light, n-refractive index) -pulse energy is directly proportional to cavity length L and round trip time R T , while the repetition rate is inversely proportional to the resonator length. For a range of laser applications in material processing a high pulse energy or respectively high peak intensity is required. Different techniques such as Q-switching, cavity dumping and optical amplification are currently used to generate high energy pulses. One of the important physical and technical challenges in laser science is to achieve high pulse energy in mode-locked lasers to provide tools for a variety of applications ranging from material processing to advanced bio-medical imaging. Compared to Q-switching and cavity dumping techniques, mode-locked lasers allow a post-compression of output pulses, making possible generation of ultrashort optical pulses with high energy.Drastic increase of the laser cavity can be implemented using a fibre waveguide. In the case of CW fibre lasers, it has been recently demonstrated that resolvable reso...

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Mode-locking in 25-km fibre laser

Ivanenko

Turitsyn

Kobsev

et al. 2010

36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication

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“…It has the same terms as that found by the method of moments (see Equation (10) in [7]). Thanks to collective variable approach, we have found a simple analytic expression for the resonance curve which is in good qualitative agreement with in [7].…”

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Effects of Dissipative Terms on Dissipative Soliton Resonance Curve

Kamagaté¹,

Konaté²,

Soro³

et al. 2017

OPJ

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Dissipative soliton resonance (DSR) is a phenomenon where the energy of a soliton in a dissipative system increases without limit at certain values of the system parameters. Using the method of collective variable approach, we have found an approximate relation between the parameters of the normalized complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation where the resonance manifests itself. Comparisons between the results obtained by collective variable approach, and those obtained by the method of moments show good qualitative agreement. This choice also helps to see the influence of the active terms on the resonance curve, so can be very useful in constructing passively mode-locked laser that generate solitons with the highest possible energies.

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“…Despite of its superior robustness, passive mode-locking is a dissipative process involving composite mechanisms and effects, e.g., nonlinearity, dispersion, loss and gain [12]. Such a complex system, indeed, is an ideal platform for nonlinear physics study, which has gained its popularity in the past few years, e.g., optical rogue wave generation [13][14][15][16][17], soliton explosion [18,19], soliton rain [20], and soliton resonance [21][22][23][24]. Therein, the randomly-arranged multiple pulses arising from peak power clamping [25], on the other hand, make the control and understanding of nonlinear physics involved in the passive mode-locking more difficult.…”

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Pulse-spacing manipulation in a passively mode-locked multipulse fiber laser

Yu¹,

Wei²,

Kang³

et al. 2017

Opt. Express

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Passively mode-locked fiber lasers have been intensively applied in various research fields. However, the passive mode-locking typically operates in free-running regime, which easily produces messy multiple pulses due to the fruitful nonlinear effects involved in optical fibers. Actively controlling those disordered pulses in a passively mode-locked laser is of great interest but rarely studied. In this work, we experimentally investigate a flexible pulse-spacing manipulation in the passively mode-locked multipulse fiber laser by both intracavity and extracavity methods. A tuning range of pulse spacing up to 1.5 ns is achieved. More importantly, continuous pulse-spacing modulation is successfully demonstrated through external optical injection. It is anticipated that the results can contribute to the understanding of laser nonlinear dynamics and pursuing the optimal performance of passively mode-locked fiber lasers for practical applications. "Frequency metrology with a turnkey all-fiber system," Opt. Lett. 29(21), 2467-2469 (2004). 6. R. R. Gattass and E. Mazur, "Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials," Nat. Photonics 2(4), 219-225 (2008). 7. F. M. Mitschke and L. F. Mollenauer, "Discovery of the soliton self-frequency shift," Opt. Lett. 11(10), 659-661 (1986). 8. M. Wanner, E. L. Tanzi, and T. S. Alster, "Fractional photothermolysis: treatment of facial and nonfacial cutaneous photodamage with a 1,550-nm erbium-doped fiber laser," Dermatol. Surg. 33(1), 23-28 (2007). 9. C. Xu and F. W. Wise, "Recent advances in fibre lasers for nonlinear microscopy," Nat. Photonics 7(11), 875-882 (2013). 10. C. W. Freudiger, W. Yang, G. R. Holtom, N. Peyghambarian, X. S. Xie, and K. Q. Kieu, "Stimulated Raman scattering microscopy with a robust fibre laser source," Nat. Photonics 8(2), 153-159 (2014). 11. B. E. Bouma, L. E. Nelson, G. J. Tearney, D. J. Jones, M. E. Brezinski, and J. G. Fujimoto, "Optical coherence tomographic imaging of human tissue at 1.55 μm and 1.81 μm using Er-and Tm-doped fiber sources," J.

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Dissipative soliton resonance in an all-normaldispersion erbium-doped fiber laser

Cited by 327 publications

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Mode-locking in 25-km fibre laser

Mode-locking in 25-km fibre laser

Effects of Dissipative Terms on Dissipative Soliton Resonance Curve

Pulse-spacing manipulation in a passively mode-locked multipulse fiber laser

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