Rains of solitons in a fiber laser.
We report a novel and intriguing nonlinear dynamics observed in a fiber laser cavity, in which soliton pulses are created from an extended noisy background and drift until they reach a condensed phase comprising several tens of aggregated solitons. This soliton flow can be adjusted with manual cavity tuning, and can even be triggered by the injection of an external low-power cw laser.
Chouli
Souad
S
Institut Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 5209 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, 21078 Dijon, France.
Grelu
Philippe
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D004867:Equipment Design; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D007834:Lasers; D008027:Light; D055100:Optical Fibers; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D009991:Oscillometry / Q000379:methods; D013997:Time Factors