Universal soliton pattern formations in passively mode-locked fiber lasers
Author(s) -
Foued Amrani,
Mohamed Salhi,
Philippe Grelu,
Hervé Leblond,
François Sanchez
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
optics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1071-2763
pISSN - 0146-9592
DOI - 10.1364/ol.36.001545
Subject(s) - soliton , dissipative soliton , fiber laser , optics , physics , laser , dispersion (optics) , photonic crystal fiber , optical fiber , quantum mechanics , nonlinear system
We investigate multiple-soliton pattern formations in a figure-of-eight passively mode-locked fiber laser. Operation in the anomalous dispersion regime with a double-clad fiber amplifier allows generation of up to several hundreds of solitons per round trip. We report the observation of remarkable soliton distributions: soliton gas, soliton liquid, soliton polycrystal, and soliton crystal, thus indicating the universality of such complexes.
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