title: Vector multi-soliton operation and interaction in a graphene mode-locked fiber laser.
abstract: We experimentally investigated the vector multi-soliton operation and vector soliton interaction in an erbium doped fiber laser passively mode locked by atomic layer graphene. It is found that the vector multi-soliton operation exhibited several characteristic modes. These are the random static distribution of vector solitons, stable bunches of vector solitons, restless oscillations of vector solitons, rain of vector solitons, and emission of a so-called "giant vector soliton". The formation mechanisms of the operation modes were also experimentally investigated.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore.
authors.forename: Yu Feng
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: De Yuan
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Ding Yuan
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Kian Ping
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Loh
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006108:Graphite / Q000737:chemistry*; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D008027:Light; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation
chemical_list: D006108:Graphite