Stimulated soliton pulse formation and its mechanism in a fibre soliton laser

Author

Tam, Hwa Yaw ; Man, W.S. ; Demokan, M.S. ; Tang, D.Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech., Kowloon, Hong Kong

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

109

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report on an effect we referred as "stimulated" soliton pulse formation in a passively mode-locked fibre soliton laser. We found experimentally if there are already soliton pulses in the cavity of the laser, new soliton pulses can be generated one by one with very low pump threshold. This is different to the soliton formation of the laser from a CW state, where a very high pump threshold is required and simultaneously multiple soliton pulses are formed. Studying mechanism of the soliton pulse formation we found that it is a result of existence of dispersive waves in the laser.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical solitons; solid lasers; dispersive waves; fibre soliton laser; passively mode-locked fibre soliton laser; stimulated soliton pulse formation; very low pump threshold; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.833952

Filename

833952