Vector Soliton Bunching in Thulium-Holmium Fiber Laser Mode-Locked With PbS Quantum-Dot-Doped Glass Absorber

Author

Gumenyuk, Regina ; Gaponenko, Maxim S. ; Yumashev, Konstantin V. ; Onushchenko, Alexei A. ; Okhotnikov, Oleg G.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

Volume

48

Issue

7

fYear

2012

fDate

7/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

903

Lastpage

907

Abstract

Saturable absorber based on PbS quantum-dot-doped glasses exhibiting bi-temporal recovery dynamics provides effective means for control of vector soliton bunching in 2-μm spectral range. The slow response of absorption creates an attractive force between pulses, and a bunch of tightly bounded vector solitons propagates in a cavity as an entity. Subjected to the joint action of attractive and repulsive forces, the solitons tend to oscillate within the bunch.

Keywords

IV-VI semiconductors; fibre lasers; holmium; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; lead compounds; optical control; optical glass; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; semiconductor quantum dots; thulium; PbS; attractive force; bitemporal recovery dynamics; laser cavity; mode-locked thulium-holmium fiber laser; quantum-dot-doped glass absorber; repulsive forces; saturable absorber; tightly bounded vector soliton propagation; vector soliton bunching; wavelength 2 mum; Absorption; Fiber lasers; Glass; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber dispersion; Solitons; Vectors; Fiber laser; laser mode-locking; nonlinear optics; optical solitons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2012.2195772

Filename

6189721