Open AccessInitial conditions for dissipative solitons in a strict polarization-controlled passively mode-locked Er-Fiber laser
Author(s) -
H. Santiago-Hernández,
Y. E. Bracamontes-Rodríguez,
G. Beltrán-Pérez,
I. Armas-Rivera,
L. A. Rodríguez-Morales,
O. Pottiez,
B. Ibarra-Escamilla,
M. Durán-Sánchez,
M. V. Hernández-Arriaga,
E. A. Kuzin
Publication year - 2017
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.25.025036
Subject(s) - physics , optics , polarizer , polarization (electrochemistry) , fiber laser , laser , azimuth , dissipative soliton , soliton , orthogonal polarization spectral imaging , mode locking , dissipative system , birefringence , quantum mechanics , chemistry , nonlinear system
We report the dynamics of dissipative solitons in a ring cavity passively mode-locked fiber laser with a strict control of the polarization state. We study the relation between the polarization state of the pulses propagating in the cavity and the regimes of generation. We have found that at pulse ellipticities between 5° and 15°, the laser generates one bunch of pulses in the cavity, while at higher ellipticities the laser generates multiple bunches. At constant ellipticity we rotated the polarization azimuth and observed a regime transition from the generation of noise-like pulses (NLP) to that of soliton crystal. The NLP regime was found when the azimuth was rotated towards smaller low-power transmission through the polarizer. The number of solitons in the soliton crystal also depended on the azimuth in a straightforward way: the higher the initial transmission, the bigger the number of solitons.