Title :
Observation of stable, polarization-locked, vector bound states of solitons from a carbon-nanotube mode-locked fiber laser
Author :
Zheng Gong ; Xin Zhao ; Jingjing Xu ; Yu Sun ; Zheng Zheng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We report the observation of bound states formed by an induced vector soliton and a scalar soliton, the first reported case involving a vector soliton, generated from a weakly birefringent, carbon-nanotube mode-locked fiber laser.
Keywords :
bound states; carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibre polarisation; optical solitons; vectors; C; carbon-nanotube mode-locked fiber laser; induced vector soliton; laser stability; polarization locking; scalar soliton; vector bound states; weak birefringence; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical solitons; Optimized production technology; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656599
