Soliton trapping in fiber lasers.
We report on the soliton trapping in a fiber ring laser modelocked with a SESAM. It was observed that solitons along the two orthogonal polarization directions of the cavity with fairly large difference in central frequency and energy could be coupled together to form a group velocity locked vector soliton. In particular, due to that each of the coupled solitons forms its own soliton sidebands, two sets of soliton sidebands could be observed on the vector soliton spectrum. Numerical simulations have well confirmed the experimental observations.
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798. lmzhao@ntu.edu.sg
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D003198:Computer Simulation; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007834:Lasers; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012542:Scattering, Radiation