• DocumentCode
    2255222
  • 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
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4572277