Open AccessDissipative soliton evolution in ultra-large normal-cavity-dispersion fiber lasers
Author(s) -
Xueming Liu
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.17.009549
Subject(s) - optics , fiber laser , laser , dispersion (optics) , dissipative soliton , physics , dissipative system , soliton , quantum mechanics , nonlinear system
Dissipative soliton (DS) evolution in passively mode-locked fiber lasers with ultra-large net-normal-dispersion (as large as 1 ps(2)) is investigated. The proposed DS laser operates on three statuses with respect to the pump power. The DS laser works on a status that is similar to an all-normal-dispersion laser when the pump power is low, whereas it creates a new type of pulses exhibited as the trapezoid-spectrum profile when the pump power is large. The laser cavity emits the unstable pulses between the above two statuses. The cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation can serve to qualitatively explain our experimental observations.