Dissipative solitons in normal-dispersion fiber lasers

W. H. Renninger, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise
Phys. Rev. A 77, 023814 – Published 12 February 2008

Abstract

Mode-locked fiber lasers in which pulse shaping is based on filtering of a frequency-chirped pulse are analyzed with the cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation. An exact analytical solution produces a variety of temporal and spectral shapes, which have not been observed in any experimental setting to our knowledge. Experiments agree with the theory over a wide range of parameters. The observed pulses balance gain and loss as well as phase modulations, and thus constitute dissipative temporal solitons. The normal-dispersion fiber laser allows systematic exploration of this class of solitons.

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  • Received 12 September 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.023814

©2008 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

W. H. Renninger, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise

  • Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University, 212 Clark Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

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Vol. 77, Iss. 2 — February 2008

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