Dissipative soliton in an actively mode-locked fiber laser.pdf

Dissipative soliton in actively mode-locked fiber laser Ruixin Wang,* Yitang Dai, Li Yan, Jian Wu, Kun Xu, Yan Li, and Jintong Lin State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics Optical Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), P. O. Box 55 (BUPT), Beijing, 100876, China *ruixin00@ Abstract: A dissipative soliton in an all-normal-dispersion actively mode- locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser is reported for the first time. Pulses with 10-ps duration and edge-to-edge bandwidth of 9 nm are generated, and then extra-cavity compressed down to 560 fs due to the large chirp. Widely wavelength tuning between 1031 and 1080 nm is achieved by adjusting the driving frequency only. Our simulation shows that the proposed laser operates in the dissipative soliton shaping regime. ?2012 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (140.3510) Lasers, fiber; (140.3538) Lasers, pulsed; (140.3615) Lasers, ytterbium. References and links 1. A. Chong, J. Buckley, W. Renninger, and F. Wise, “All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser,” Opt. Express 14(21), 10095–10100 (2006). 2. J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. Akhmediev, and G. Town, “Interrelation between various branches of stable solitons in dissipative systems-conjecture for stability criterion,” Opt. Commun. 199(1-4), 283–293 (2001). 3. A. Chong, W. H. Renninger, and F. W. Wise, “All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser with pulse energy above 20 nJ,” Opt. Lett. 32(16), 2408–2410 (2007). 4. N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo, and Ph. Grelu, “Roadmap to ultra-short record high-energy pulses out of laser oscillators,” Phys. Lett. A 372(17), 3124–3128 (2008). 5. K. Kieu, W. H. Renninger, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, “Sub-100 fs pulses at watt-level powers from a dissipative-soliton fiber laser,” Opt. Lett. 34(5), 593–595 (2009). 6. G. T. Harvey and L. F. Mollenauer, “Harmonically mode-locked fiber ring laser with an internal Fabry-Perot stabilizer for soliton transmission,” Opt. Lett. 18(2), 107–109