Manipulation of Group-Velocity-Locked Vector Solitons From Fiber Lasers

Vector solitons in harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers

We report experimental study of vector solitons for the fundamental and harmonic mode-locked operation in erbiumdoper fiber lasers with carbon nanotubes based saturable absorbers and anomalous dispersion cavities. We measure evolution of the output pulses polarization and demonstrate vector solitons with various polarization attractors, including locked polarization, periodic polarization switc...

Solitons Polarization - locked Temporal Vector Solitons In an Optical Fiber

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Intricate solitons state in passively mode-locked fiber lasers.

We report a novel spontaneous soliton pattern formation in a figure-of-eight passively mode-locked erbium-doped double-clad fiber laser. It consists in a condensate phase in which there is almost periodic arrangement of alternate crystal and liquid soliton phases. Thanks to an adapted ansatz for the electric field, we perform a reconstruction allowing to clearly identify the soliton distributio...

Observation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in an Optical Fiber

S. T. Cundiff,1 B. C. Collings,2,3 N. N. Akhmediev,4 J. M. Soto-Crespo,5 K. Bergman,2 and W. H. Knox3 1JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 3Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 4Australian Photonics Cooperative Re...

Mode Locked Fiber Lasers