Passive mode-locking of a 10 W double-clad fiber laser

Author

Amrani, Foued ; Niang, Alioune ; Salhi, Mohamed ; Komarov, Andrey ; Leblond, Hervé ; Sanchez, François

Author_Institution

Lab. de Photonique d´´Angers, Univ. d´´Angers, Angers, France

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We report experimental observation of bound states of soliton in passively mode-locked erbium-doped double-clad fiber laser. Operating in the anomalous dispersion regime with a double-clad fiber 10 W amplifier allows generation of up to several thousands of solitons per round trip. By increasing the pumping power we pass from one bound state to several separated bound states. The bound states self-organize them leading to harmonic mode-locking of soliton crystals.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibre cladding; optical solitons; anomalous dispersion; double-clad fiber amplifier; double-clad fiber laser; harmonic mode-locking; passive mode-locking; power 10 W; pumping power; soliton crystals; solitons; Crystals; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Harmonic analysis; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Solitons; harmonic mode lock; passive mode locked laser; soliton; solitons crystal;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253897

Filename

6253897