Title :
Highly-chirped dissipative solitons in anomalous-dispersion fiber lasers
Author :
Renninger, W.H. ; Chong, A. ; Wise, F.W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Abstract :
A new modelocking regime governed by the Ginzburg-Landau equation is demonstrated in an anomalous dispersion fiber laser. Output pulses are long, flat-topped, and highly-down-chirped, with energies above 150 nJ and repetition rates below 300 kHz.
Keywords :
Ginzburg-Landau theory; chirp modulation; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; Ginzburg-Landau equation; anomalous-dispersion fiber laser; chirped dissipative soliton; flat-topped pulses; laser modelocking; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Laser theory; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Solitons; Ultrafast optics; (190.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons; (320.7110) Ultrafast nonlinear optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
