Vector dark solitons in a single mode fibre laser

We report on the first experimental observation of vector dark solitons in an erbium-doped single mode fiber ring laser. We show experimentally that two orthogonal linearly polarized dark solitons could couple together incoherently through the cross polarization phase modulation and form a bound sta...

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Published inLaser physics letters Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 85110 - 85115
Main Authors Shao, G D, Guo, J, Hu, X, Song, Y F, Zhao, L M, Tang, D Y
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IOP Publishing 01.08.2019
Subjects
fibre laser
optical soliton
ultrafast fiber optics
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Summary:We report on the first experimental observation of vector dark solitons in an erbium-doped single mode fiber ring laser. We show experimentally that two orthogonal linearly polarized dark solitons could couple together incoherently through the cross polarization phase modulation and form a bound state of dark solitons. In particular, the formed vector dark solitons are stable even under existence of high frequency periodic background intensity modulation. Numerical simulations have well confirmed the existence of vector dark solitons in single mode fiber lasers and their stability under periodic background intensity modulation. ©2018 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (190.4370) nonlinear optics, fibers; (190.5530) pulse propagation and temporal solitons.
Bibliography:2019LPL0211
ISSN:1612-2011
1612-202X
DOI:10.1088/1612-202X/ab2804