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Group-velocity-locked vector solitons and dissipative solitons in a single fiber laser with net-anomalous dispersion

Laser cavities which can generate different types of ultrashort pulses are attractive for practical applications and the study of pulse dynamics. Here, we report the first experimental observation of both conventional solitons (CS) and dissipative solitons (DS) generated from a single all-fiber lase...

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Autores principales: Xu, Shutao, Turnali, Ahmet, Sander, Michelle Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9046385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35477967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10818-4
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description Laser cavities which can generate different types of ultrashort pulses are attractive for practical applications and the study of pulse dynamics. Here, we report the first experimental observation of both conventional solitons (CS) and dissipative solitons (DS) generated from a single all-fiber laser with net-anomalous dispersion. A birefringence-related intracavity Lyot filter with an adjustable extinction ratio enables the switching between the two types of ultrashort pulses. Depending on the polarization controller settings and the pump power, either chirp-free CS with a pulse energy of 406 pJ and a spectral bandwidth of 5.1 nm or up-chirped DS with a pulse energy of 5.1 nJ and an optical bandwidth of 9.6 nm can be generated. Similar polarization features are observed when the laser switches between different soliton operations as both CS and DS are group-velocity-locked vector solitons. Our work paves a novel way to generate dissipative solitons with a relatively high pulse energy (one order of magnitude larger than for CS) and a large chirp directly from an all-fiber net-anomalous-dispersion cavity through birefringent filter management.
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spelling pubmed-90463852022-04-29 Group-velocity-locked vector solitons and dissipative solitons in a single fiber laser with net-anomalous dispersion Xu, Shutao Turnali, Ahmet Sander, Michelle Y. Sci Rep Article Laser cavities which can generate different types of ultrashort pulses are attractive for practical applications and the study of pulse dynamics. Here, we report the first experimental observation of both conventional solitons (CS) and dissipative solitons (DS) generated from a single all-fiber laser with net-anomalous dispersion. A birefringence-related intracavity Lyot filter with an adjustable extinction ratio enables the switching between the two types of ultrashort pulses. Depending on the polarization controller settings and the pump power, either chirp-free CS with a pulse energy of 406 pJ and a spectral bandwidth of 5.1 nm or up-chirped DS with a pulse energy of 5.1 nJ and an optical bandwidth of 9.6 nm can be generated. Similar polarization features are observed when the laser switches between different soliton operations as both CS and DS are group-velocity-locked vector solitons. Our work paves a novel way to generate dissipative solitons with a relatively high pulse energy (one order of magnitude larger than for CS) and a large chirp directly from an all-fiber net-anomalous-dispersion cavity through birefringent filter management. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9046385/ /pubmed/35477967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10818-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_fullStr Group-velocity-locked vector solitons and dissipative solitons in a single fiber laser with net-anomalous dispersion
title_full_unstemmed Group-velocity-locked vector solitons and dissipative solitons in a single fiber laser with net-anomalous dispersion
title_short Group-velocity-locked vector solitons and dissipative solitons in a single fiber laser with net-anomalous dispersion
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9046385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35477967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10818-4
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