Open AccessDissipative soliton resonance in a full polarization-maintaining fiber ring laser at different values of dispersion
Author(s) -
I. Armas-Rivera,
Christian Cuadrado-Laborde,
Antonio Carrascosa,
E. A. Kuzin,
G. Beltrán-Pérez,
A. Dı́ez,
Miguel V. Andrés
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.24.009966
Subject(s) - optics , fiber laser , materials science , photonic crystal fiber , dissipative soliton , dispersion (optics) , polarization mode dispersion , dispersion shifted fiber , single mode optical fiber , resonance (particle physics) , polarization (electrochemistry) , laser , optical fiber , soliton , physics , atomic physics , fiber optic sensor , chemistry , nonlinear system , quantum mechanics
We investigated the dissipative solitons resonance in an ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser in which all the elements are polarization maintaining (PM). A semiconductor saturable absorber mirror was used as a mode-locker. The cavity included a normal dispersion single-mode fiber (SMF) and an anomalous dispersion photonic crystal fiber. The change of the length of the PM SMF allows the variation of the net-normal dispersion of the cavity in the range from 0.022 ps 2 to 0.262 ps 2 . As the absolute value of the net-normal dispersion increases from 0.022 ps 2 to 0.21 ps 2 , a square-shaped single pulse transformed to a single right-angle trapezoid-shaped pulse, and, at the dispersion of 0.262 ps 2 , to multiple right-angle trapezoid-shaped pulses, per round-trip.