Title :
Back-action of continuum on solitons and the resulting energy oscillations in a mode-locked laser
Author :
Lee, C.-C. ; Schibli, T.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
We describe a resonant phenomenon that exists in all mode-locked lasers with non-negligible anomalous chromatic dispersion and self-phase modulation. Numerical simulation and experiment are also performed, and good agreement with the analytic results was found.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical dispersion; optical solitons; self-phase modulation; continuum back-action; energy oscillations; mode-locked laser; nonnegligible anomalous chromatic dispersion; numerical simulation; resonant phenomenon; self-phase modulation; solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
