title: Dynamics of gain-guided solitons in an all-normal-dispersion fiber laser.
abstract: We report experimental and numerical results on the dynamics of gain-guided solitons in a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser made of purely normal dispersion fibers. We show that formation of the soliton in the laser is a result of mutual interaction and balance among the cavity transmission, fiber Kerr nonlinearity, gain saturation, and filtering over one cavity round trip.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. lmzhao@ntu.edu.sg
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Zhao
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authors.lastname: Tang
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authors.lastname: Zhang
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authors.lastname: Cheng
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authors.lastname: Tam
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authors.lastname: Lu