Title :
Soliton squeezing through antiresonant electrostrictive mode coupling in a Brillouin fiber ring laser
Author :
Montes, C. ; Bongrand, I. ; Picholle, E. ; Botineau, J. ; Picozzi, A.
Author_Institution :
CNRS, Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Summary from only given. Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) of a cw pump E/sub p/ in an optical fiber is able to generate a counter propagating Stokes pulse E/sub B/ by resonant interaction with high frequency (GHz) axial acoustic waves E/sub a/. We have dynamically described and experimentally obtained the generation of stable trains of dissipative Brillouin solitons in fiber ring lasers below a critical feedback, when the cavities contain a large number of longitudinal modes N beneath the Brillouin gain curve. Stable self-pulsed regimes of nanosecond Brillouin solitons are obtained in a finite range of fiber length [namely 10\n\n\t\t
Keywords :
Fourier transform optics; electrostriction; fibre lasers; laser modes; optical solitons; optical squeezing; ring lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin fiber ring laser; Brillouin gain curve; Fourier transform spectra; antiresonant electrostrictive mode coupling; cavity mode coupling; counter propagating Stokes pulse; critical feedback; cw pump; dissipative Brillouin solitons; fiber length; fiber ring lasers; high frequency axial acoustic waves; longitudinal modes; optical fiber; soliton squeezing; stable self-pulsed regimes; stable train generation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin scattering; Electrostriction; Fiber lasers; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Ring lasers; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Nice, France
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6318-3
DOI :
10.1109/IQEC.2000.907863
