title: Cascaded generation of coherent Raman dissipative solitons.
abstract: The cascaded generation of a conventional dissipative soliton (at 1020 nm) together with Raman dissipative solitons of the first (1065 nm) and second (1115 nm) orders inside a common fiber laser cavity is demonstrated experimentally and numerically. With sinusoidal (soft) spectral filtering, the generated solitons are mutually coherent at a high degree and compressible down to 300 fs. Numerical simulation shows that an even higher degree of coherence and shorter pulses could be achieved with step-like (hard) spectral filtering. The approach can be extended toward a high-order coherent Raman dissipative soliton source offering numerous applications such as frequency comb generation, pulse synthesis, biomedical imaging, and the generation of a coherent mid-infrared supercontinuum.
authors.forename: Denis S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Kharenko
authors.forename: Anastasia E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Bednyakova
authors.forename: Evgeniy V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Podivilov
authors.forename: Mikhail P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Fedoruk
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Apolonski
authors.forename: Sergey A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Babin