Title :
Passive mode-locking of a 10 W double-clad fiber laser
Author :
Amrani, Foued ; Niang, Alioune ; Salhi, Mohamed ; Komarov, Andrey ; Leblond, Hervé ; Sanchez, François
Author_Institution :
Lab. de Photonique d´´Angers, Univ. d´´Angers, Angers, France
Abstract :
We report experimental observation of bound states of soliton in passively mode-locked erbium-doped double-clad fiber laser. Operating in the anomalous dispersion regime with a double-clad fiber 10 W amplifier allows generation of up to several thousands of solitons per round trip. By increasing the pumping power we pass from one bound state to several separated bound states. The bound states self-organize them leading to harmonic mode-locking of soliton crystals.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibre cladding; optical solitons; anomalous dispersion; double-clad fiber amplifier; double-clad fiber laser; harmonic mode-locking; passive mode-locking; power 10 W; pumping power; soliton crystals; solitons; Crystals; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Harmonic analysis; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Solitons; harmonic mode lock; passive mode locked laser; soliton; solitons crystal;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coventry
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2228-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-2056
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253897
