Resonant dispersion effect on soliton stability in actively mode-locked inhomogeneously broadend lasers

Author

Lu, Wei ; Yan, Li

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

624

Abstract

In this paper, we present numerical and experimental study of the resonant dispersion effect on soliton pulse in an inhomogeneously broadened laser. The combination of resonant dispersion and active amplitude modulation can periodically destabilize the soliton pulse. We show experimentally that, by using the regenerative mode-locking, the soliton instability induced by the resonant dispersion can be removed. In this experiment, we used regenerative mode-locking system to synchronize the modulation frequency and the pulse repetition rate.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; inhomogeneous media; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical dispersion; optical modulation; optical solitons; solid lasers; synchronisation; actively mode-locked inhomogeneously broadend laser; amplitude modulation; modulation frequency synchronization; pulse repetition rate; regenerative mode-locking; resonant dispersion effect; soliton instability; soliton pulse; soliton stability; Amplitude modulation; Dispersion; Frequency modulation; Frequency synchronization; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation; Resonance; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252955

Filename

1252955