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AUTHOR
S. Chouli
Complexes and Molecules of Dissipative Solitons in Mode-Locked Lasers
Pulse-pulse interaction is a major issue in the development of high-repetition rate fiber laser sources or soliton-based optical transmission lines. The design of a suitable level of nonlinear dissipation, through nonlinear filters or saturable absorbers for instance, is able to improve significantly the stability of multiple pulse operation. The concept of a dissipative soliton has become an important tool for the exploration and the analysis of the multiple pulse dynamics, with mode-locked lasers and regenerated transmission lines as important applications [1,2]. Above all, the study of dissipative solitons has become a fertile area of nonlinear science with multidisciplinary implications…
Manipulating dissipative soliton ensembles in passively mode-locked fiber lasers
International audience; We review our recent experimental and theoretical results addressing the dynamics of large numbers of solitons interacting in presence of a background in passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers. We first characterize experimentally the soliton rain complex dynamics, and then we focus on ordered soliton patterns. We report that, for suitable experimental parameters, a continuous wave can impose harmonic mode locking. Two levels of modeling for a mode-locked laser subjected to the external injection of a continuous wave are developed to support the latter observation. The first one is based on a scalar master equation, while the second one takes into account th…
Dissipative solitons for mode-locked fiber lasers
The concept of a dissipative optical soliton is applied to interpret various pulse dynamics either predicted numerically or observed experimentally in passively mode-locked fiber lasers. The recently discovered “dissipative soliton resonance” phenomenon and “soliton rain” dynamics are highlighted as prominent examples.