Recent progress of study on optical solitons in fiber lasers

Y Song, X Shi, C Wu, D Tang, H Zhang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Solitons are stable localized wave packets that can propagate long distance in dispersive
media without changing their shapes. As particle-like nonlinear localized waves, solitons …

Recent advance of emerging low-dimensional materials for vector soliton generation in fiber lasers

Y Qi, S Yang, J Wang, L Li, Z Bai, Y Wang, Z Lv - Materials Today Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Ultrafast fiber lasers have significant applications in laser communications, ultra-precision
manufacturing, biomedical diagnostics, and so on. Among all the types of ultrashort pulses …

All-polarization-maintaining dual-wavelength mode-locked fiber laser based on Sagnac loop filter

R Li, H Shi, H Tian, Y Li, B Liu, Y Song, M Hu - Optics Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an all polarization-maintaining (PM) fiber based dual-wavelength mode-
locked Er-fiber laser. A nonlinear amplifying loop mirror (NALM) with an intracavity …

Emergent phenomena of vector solitons induced by the linear coupling

Y Du, Z He, Q Gao, H Zhang, C Zeng… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coupling between modes is crucial for generating coherent structures and spatiotemporal
chaos in optical systems. In an ultrafast fiber laser with birefringence, the stable pulse is …

Group-velocity-locked vector solitons and dissipative solitons in a single fiber laser with net-anomalous dispersion

S Xu, A Turnali, MY Sander - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Laser cavities which can generate different types of ultrashort pulses are attractive for
practical applications and the study of pulse dynamics. Here, we report the first experimental …

Scaling the repetition rate of thulium-doped ultrafast soliton fiber lasers to the GHz regime

J Zeng, AE Akosman, MY Sander - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
GHz high repetition rate compact sources with femtosecond pulse durations and stable
performance can enable a wide range of applications. In this paper, several high repetition …

Polarization dynamics of ultrafast solitons

A Klein, S Meir, H Duadi, A Govindarajan… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We study the polarization dynamics of ultrafast solitons in mode-locked fiber lasers. We find
that when a stable soliton is generated, its state of polarization shifts toward a stable state …

Real-time observation of chaotic and periodic explosions in a mode-locked Tm-doped fiber laser

J Zeng, MY Sander - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally characterize the dynamics of soliton explosions in a transient chaotic
state between a single and double pulsing state, as well as periodic explosions induced by …

Spatiotemporal vectorial solitons in nonlinear ultrafast dual-core fiber lasers

B Li, X Wang, Y Liang, J Sun, S Zhu, X Chen… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
The processes of soliton generation and interference focus on the complex nonlinear soliton
dynamics resembling matter particles. In order to further understand the dynamic process of …

Exploiting the etalon effect to manipulate the pulse characteristics of a self-mode-locked Nd: YVO4 laser with a flexible cavity length

Y Jin, M Hu, M Xu, H Yan, C Liu, L Chen, H Li, M Bi… - Optics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Three longitudinal mode oscillation states and their corresponding pulse characteristics
were obtained by exploiting the etalon effect in a self-mode-locked (SML) laser. Various …