Nonlinear pulse shaping and polarization dynamics in mode-locked fibre lasers

Author

Sergeyev, Sergey V. ; Boscolo, Stefano ; Chengbo Mou ; Finot, C. ; Turitsyn, S.K.

Author_Institution

Aston Inst. of Photonic Technol., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We review our recent progress on the study of new nonlinear mechanisms of pulse shaping in passively mode-locked fibre lasers. These include a mode-locking regime featuring pulses with a triangular distribution of the intensity, and spectral compression arising from nonlinear pulse propagation. We also report on our recent experimental studies unveiling new families of vector solitons with precessing states of polarization for multi-pulsing and bound-state soliton operations in a carbon nanotube mode-locked fibre laser with anomalous dispersion cavity.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; light polarisation; nonlinear dynamical systems; optical fibre polarisation; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; optical solitons; vectors; anomalous dispersion cavity; bound-state soliton; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; multipulsing; nonlinear pulse shaping; polarization dynamics; spectral compression; triangular distribution; vector solitons; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fibers; Solitons; Vectors; Dynamics of nonlinear optical systems; mode-locked fibre lasers; pulse propagation and temporal solitons; pulse shaping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cartagena

ISSN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602708

Filename

6602708