Trapping of Soliton Molecule in a Graphene-Based Mode-Locked Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Laser

Author

Nian Zhao ; Zhi-Chao Luo ; Hao Liu ; Meng Liu ; Xu-Wu Zheng ; Lan Liu ; Jun-Hong Liao ; Xu-De Wang ; Ai-Ping Luo ; Wen-Cheng Xu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Optoelectron. Sci. & Eng., South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, China

Volume

26

Issue

24

fYear

2014

fDate

Dec.15, 15 2014

Firstpage

2450

Lastpage

2453

Abstract

We reported on the trapping of soliton molecule in a passively mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser with a microfiber-based graphene saturable absorber (GSA). By virtue of the highly nonlinear effect of microfiber-based GSA, the multipulse formation, such as the soliton molecule, is greatly enhanced despite of the all-normal dispersion regime. Depending on the cavity parameter selections, it was found that the conventional multisoliton could be reconstructed and then evolve into the soliton molecule. The soliton molecule trapping of two polarization components with a 0.65-nm wavelength separation was observed, which propagated as a group-velocity locked vector soliton despite of the cavity birefringence. The obtained results provide an enhanced understanding of dynamics of the soliton molecule.

Keywords

birefringence; fibre lasers; graphene; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; micro-optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; radiation pressure; ytterbium; C; all-normal dispersion regime; cavity birefringence; cavity parameter selections; graphene-based passively mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser; microfiber-based graphene saturable absorber; multipulse formation; optical nonlinear effect; polarization components; soliton molecule dynamics; soliton molecule trapping; wavelength 0.65 nm; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Solitons; Vectors; Fiber laser; graphene; soliton molecule; trapping;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2014.2358496

Filename

6899587