Title :
Dissipative solitons of the Ginzburg-Landau equation in normal-dispersion fiber lasers
Author :
Renninger, W.H. ; Chong, A. ; Wise, F.W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Abstract :
Fiber lasers modelocked by filtering of a chirped pulse are analyzed with the Ginzburg-Landau equation. A range of experimental pulse shapes are predicted remarkably well by an exact analytical solution, and constitute dissipative temporal solitons.
Keywords :
Ginzburg-Landau theory; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; Ginzburg-Landau equation; chirped pulse filtering; dissipative solitons; normal-dispersion fiber lasers; Chirp; Equations; Fiber lasers; Filtering; Laser modes; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Solitons; (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
