DocumentCode
1266198
Title
Bright–Dark Pulse Pair in a Figure-Eight Dispersion-Managed Passively Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
Author
Ning, Qiu-Yi ; Wang, Shag-Kai ; Luo, Ai-Ping ; Lin, Zhen-Bin ; Luo, Zhi-Chao ; Xu, Wen-Cheng
Author_Institution
Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices , School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Volume
4
Issue
5
fYear
2012
Firstpage
1647
Lastpage
1652
Abstract
We report on the generation of bright–dark pulse pair in a figure-eight dispersion-managed (DM) passively mode-locked fiber laser with net anomalous cavity group velocity dispersion (GVD). The nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM) is employed in this configuration to allow for passively mode-locked operation. Through carefully adjusting the polarization controllers (PCs), the bright–dark pulse pair could be easily achieved. Furthermore, it is found experimentally that the pulse pair is formed due to the cross coupling between the bright and dark pulses, which are located at two different wavebands.
Keywords
Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Solitons; Bright–dark pulse pair; fiber laser; figure-eight; nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM);
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Journal, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1943-0655
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2212878
Filename
6269980
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