Title :
Bound solitons operation of a fiber laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes
Author :
Wu, X. ; Tang, D.Y. ; Zhao, L.M. ; Zhang, H.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
Bound solitons are observed in a fiber laser passively mode-locked by carbon nanotube saturable absorber for the first time. Such bound solitons are observed to be stable, and have the characteristic of discrete, fixed soliton separations and phase difference of π. Our results once again show that the bound soliton emission is an intrinsic feature of the mode-locked soliton fiber lasers.
Keywords :
carbon nanotubes; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; C; bound solitons; carbon nanotube saturable absorber; fiber laser; laser mode locking; soliton separations; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Solitons; Bound state; carbon nanotube; mode-locked fiber laser; soliton;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2010
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9882-6
DOI :
10.1109/PGC.2010.5706053
