Vector solitons in a laser passively mode-locked by single-wall carbon nanotubes

作者：Wong Jia Haur^*; Wu Kan; Liu Huan Huan; Ouyang Chunmei; Wang Honghai; Aditya Sheel; Shum Ping; Fu Songnian; Kelleher E J R; Chernov A; Obraztsova E D

来源：Optics Communications, 2011, 284(7): 2007-2011.

DOI：10.1016/j.optcom.2010.12.048

• Single-wall carbon nanotubes
• Polarization rotation locking
• Vector solitons
• Period-doubling
• Timing jitter

Polarization Rotation Locked Vector Solitons (PRLVSs) are experimentally observed for the first time in a fiber ring laser passively mode-locked by a single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) saturable absorber. Period-doubling of these solitons at certain birefringence values has also been observed. We show that fine adjustment to the intracavity birefringence can swing the PRLVSs from period-doubled to period-one state without simultaneous reduction in the pump strength. The timing jitter for both states has also been measured experimentally and discussed analytically using the theoretical framework provided by the Haus model.

• 出版日期2011-4-1
• 单位南阳理工学院