Title :
Soliton stability and interactions in fibre lasers
Author :
Kodama, Yuetsu ; Romagnoli, M. ; Wabnitz, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
Abstract :
The stability conditions for soliton generation in fibre lasers are determined, and it is found that soliton interaction forces are reduced by bandwidth limited gain and fast saturable absorption.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; optical saturable absorption; solitons; stability; bandwidth limited gain; fast saturable absorption; fibre lasers; passive mode locking; soliton generation; soliton interaction forces; stability conditions;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19921270