All-fiber-integrated soliton-similariton laser with in-line fiber filter

Date
2012-08-16
Authors
Zhang, Z.
Öktem, B.
Ilday, F. Ö.
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Source Title
Optics Letters
Print ISSN
0146-9592
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Optical Society of America
Volume
37
Issue
17
Pages
3489 - 3491
Language
English
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Article
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Abstract

We demonstrate an all-fiber-integrated Er-doped fiber laser operating in the soliton-similariton mode-locking regime. In the similariton part of the cavity, a self-similarly evolving parabolic pulse with highly linear chirp propagates in the presence of normal dispersion. Following an in-line fiber-based birefringent filter, the pulse evolves into a soliton in the part of the cavity with anomalous dispersion. The similariton and the soliton pulses are dechirped to 75.5 and 167.2 fs, respectively, outside of the cavity. Mode-locked operation is very robust, owing to the influence of the two similariton and soliton attractors that predominate each half of the laser cavity. The experimental results are supported with numerical simulations, which provide good agreement.

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Anomalous dispersion, Birefringent filters, Er-doped fiber laser, Fiber filters, In-line, Linear chirp, Mode-locked, Modelocking, Normal dispersion, Parabolic pulse, Erbium, Fiber lasers, Fibers, Solitons
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