Soliton shaping of dispersive waves in a passively mode-locked fibre soliton ring laser

Authors
Man, WS Tam, HY Demokan, MS Tang, DY
Citation
Ws. Man et al., Soliton shaping of dispersive waves in a passively mode-locked fibre soliton ring laser, OPT QUANT E, 33(11), 2001, pp. 1139-1147
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
ISSN journal
03068919 → ACNP
Volume
33
Issue
11
Year of publication
2001
Pages
1139 - 1147
Database
ISI
SICI code
0306-8919(2001)33:11<1139:SSODWI>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
We have studied the mechanism of soliton formation in a passively mode-lock ed fibre ring laser when the gain is increased. We show experimentally that new soliton pulses in the laser are generated by soliton shaping of disper sive waves. Our observation is further confirmed by numerical simulations w here an improved model is used that takes into account explicitly the polar ization dispersion effect and discrete saturable absorber effect.