Manipulating dissipative soliton ensembles in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

作者：Sanchez F^*; Grelu Ph; Leblond H; Komarov A; Komarov K; Salhi M; Niang A; Amrani F; Lecaplain C; Chouli S

来源：Optical Fiber Technology, 2014, 20(6): 562-574.

DOI：10.1016/j.yofte.2014.06.009

• Fiber laser
• Mode-locking
• Ultrashort pulse
• Soliton
• Optical injection

We review our recent experimental and theoretical results addressing the dynamics of large numbers of solitons interacting in presence of a background in passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers. We first characterize experimentally the soliton rain complex dynamics, and then we focus on ordered soliton patterns. We report that, for suitable experimental parameters, a continuous wave can impose harmonic mode locking. Two levels of modeling for a mode-locked laser subjected to the external injection of a continuous wave are developed to support the latter observation. The first one is based on a scalar master equation, while the second one takes into account the mode-locking mechanism more accurately through a vectorial approach.

• 出版日期2014-12