Title :
Vector soliton control by saturable absorbers with complex recovery
Author :
Okhotnikov, Oleg G. ; Gumenyuk, Regina
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland
Abstract :
Saturable absorbers exhibiting complex recovery are shown to affect strongly the dynamics of vector soliton interaction. The study demonstrates that soliton bunch can be compressed by attractive forces generated by a saturable absorber.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical control; optical solitons; vectors; attractive forces; complex recovery; saturable absorbers; vector soliton control; Cavity resonators; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Solitons; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
