title: Prebifurcation noise amplification in a fiber laser.
abstract: We report on the experimental evidence of noise amplification in an erbium-doped fiber laser in the vicinity of saddle-node, period-doubling, and crisis bifurcations. We demonstrate this interesting phenomenon by analyzing the laser bifurcation diagrams and power spectra. Numerical simulations on the base of an advanced laser model display good agreement with the experimental results.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Loma del Bosque 115, Lomas del Campestre, 37150 Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Huerta-Cuellar
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Pisarchik
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kir'yanov
authors.forename: Yu O
authors.initials: YO
authors.lastname: Barmenkov
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Del Valle Hernández