title: High power dissipative soliton in an Erbium-doped fiber laser mode-locked with a high modulation depth saturable absorber mirror.
abstract: We report on a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser, using a high nonlinear modulation depth saturable absorber mirror, in a Fabry-Perot cavity. A segment of dispersion compensation fiber is added inside the cavity in order to build a high-positive dispersion regime. The setup produced highly chirped pulses with an energy of 1.8 nJ at a repetition rate of 33.5 MHz. Numerical simulations accurately reflect our experimental results and show that pulse-shaping in this laser could be interpreted as producing 'dissipative solitons'.
authors.affiliation: Groupe d'Optique et d'Optronique, CORIA UMR 6614, Université de Rouen, Etienne du Rouvray CEDEX, France. amelie.cabasse@coria.fr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cabasse
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Martel
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Oudar
mesh_terms: D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D007909:Lenses; D008027:Light; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity