Title :
Gain-guided and dispersion-managed soliton fiber lasers
Author :
Zhao, L.M. ; Tang, D.Y. ; Cheng, T.H. ; Lu, C.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ.
Abstract :
Gain-guided solitons are experimentally observed in dispersion-managed fiber lasers with net positive group velocity dispersion. In contrast to the conventional solitons generated in fiber lasers with net negative dispersion, gain-guided solitons have steep spectral edge(s), large pulse width and broader bandwidth, which are also different to the dispersion-managed solitons generated in fiber lasers with net positive but near zero dispersion
Keywords :
fibre lasers; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; dispersion-managed fiber laser; gain-guided soliton; group velocity dispersion; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON 2006. 2006 IEEE Region 10 Conference
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0548-3
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0549-1
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.2006.343873
