Time stretch and its applications

A Mahjoubfar, DV Churkin, S Barland, N Broderick… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Observing non-repetitive and statistically rare signals that occur on short timescales requires
fast real-time measurements that exceed the speed, precision and record length of …

Recent advances in real-time spectrum measurement of soliton dynamics by dispersive Fourier transformation

Y Wang, C Wang, F Zhang, J Guo, C Ma… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Mode-locking lasers have not only produced huge economic benefits in industrial fields and
scientific research, but also provided an excellent platform to study diverse soliton …

Revealing the behavior of soliton buildup in a mode-locked laser

X Liu, Y Cui - Advanced Photonics, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Real-time spectroscopy based on an emerging time-stretch technique can map the spectral
information of optical waves into the time domain, opening several fascinating explorations …

Soliton collision induced explosions in a mode-locked fibre laser

J Peng, H Zeng - Communications Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Soliton explosion refers to a striking nonlinear dynamics in dissipative systems. In this state,
a dissipative soliton collapses but returns back to its original state afterwards. Yet, the origin …

Breathing dissipative soliton explosions in a bidirectional ultrafast fiber laser

Y Zhou, YX Ren, J Shi, KKY Wong - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Soliton explosions, among the most exotic dynamics, have been extensively studied on
parameter invariant stationary solitons. However, the explosion dynamics are still largely …

Isomeric dynamics of multi-soliton molecules in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

S Huang, Y Liu, H Liu, Y Sun, R Xia, W Ni, Y Luo… - Apl Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The self-assembly of optical solitons propagating in nonlinear dissipative systems spreads
the concept of soliton molecules. Assisted with the real-time spectral interferometry, plentiful …

Vector dynamics of incoherent dissipative optical solitons

K Krupa, K Nithyanandan, P Grelu - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Mode-locked lasers are prone to exhibit a wide range of dynamics, many of them analyzed
within the concept of dissipative solitons. However, ultrafast laser dynamics goes beyond the …

Differential phase-diversity electrooptic modulator for cancellation of fiber dispersion and laser noise

E Ordouie, T Jiang, T Zhou, F A. Juneghani… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bandwidth and noise are fundamental considerations in all communication and signal
processing systems. The group-velocity dispersion of optical fibers creates nulls in their …

Dynamical diversity of pulsating solitons in a fiber laser

HJ Chen, YJ Tan, JG Long, WC Chen, WY Hong… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Pulsating behavior is a universal phenomenon in versatile fields. In nonlinear dissipative
systems, the solitons also pulsate under proper conditions and show many interesting …

Dynamics of carbon nanotube-based mode-locking fiber lasers

L Huang, Y Zhang, X Liu - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Carbon nanotube (CNT) can work as excellent saturable absorber (SA) due to its
advantages of fast recovery, low saturation intensity, polarization insensitivity, deep …