Universal soliton pattern formations in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

2011

International audience; We investigate multiple-soliton pattern formations in a figure-of-eight passively mode-locked fiber laser. Operation in the anomalous dispersion regime with a double-clad fiber amplifier allows generation of up to several hundreds of solitons per round trip. We report the observation of remarkable soliton distributions: soliton gas, soliton liquid, soliton polycrystal, and soliton crystal, thus indicating the universality of such complexes.

Passively mode-locked erbium-doped double-clad fiber laser operating at the 322nd harmonic

2009

International audience; We report passive mode locking of a soliton erbium-doped double-clad fiber laser operating at the 322nd harmonic of the fundamental cavity frequency. Repetition rates up to 3 GHz have been obtained with pulses of 1 ps duration and 18 pJ of energy. The supermode suppression at the 322nd harmonic is better than 25 dB. In addition, the transition dynamics from a bunched state of pulses to stable harmonic mode locking is presented, revealing a very long time scale.

Rains of solitons in a figure-of-eight passively mode-locked fiber laser

2014

International audience; We report experimental observation of rains of solitons in figure-of-eight fiber laser passively mode-locked through nonlinear optical loop mirror. Soliton pulses are created from an extended noisy background and drift until they reach a condensed phase comprising several tens of aggregated solitons. The observation of this dynamics tends to strengthen the idea of the universality of the collective behavior of solitons.

High Order Harmonic Passive Mode-Locking In Double-Clad Fiber Laser

2009

We report passive mode-locking of a soliton erbium-doped double-clad fiber laser operating at the 322nd harmonic of the fundamental cavity frequency. Repetition rates scalable up to 3 GHz have been obtained with a pulse duration of about 1 ps and a pulse energy of about 18 pJ. The supermode suppression at the 322nd harmonic is better than 25 dB. The dynamics of emergence of this operating regime is also presented revealing a very long timescale.

Potentialités des lasers à fibre dans la génération de rayonnement cohérent UV

2006

Le premier laser a fibre dope aux ions de terres rares fonctionna au tout debut des annees 60. Il fournissait quelques milliwatts autour de 1 μm. Les decades suivantes virent tres peu d'ameliorations tant du cote des laboratoires que du point de vue industriel. La derniere decennie (1995/2005) vit se concretiser la seconde revolution des lasers a fibres. Deja kilowatt en continu, ils atteignent desormais les 10 13 watts/cm 2 avec des impulsions de la centaine de femtoseconde. Lors de cette presentation nous passerons en revue les potentialites des lasers a fibre. Nous decrirons les verrous technologiques qui ont ete leves ces dix dernieres annees pour les regimes CW mais aussi femtosecondes…

Complexes and Molecules of Dissipative Solitons in Mode-Locked Lasers

2009

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…

Generation of Bound States of Three Ultrashort Pulses With a Passively Mode-Locked High-Power Yb-Doped Double-Clad Fiber Laser

2004

We report the generation of high-power ultrashort bound states of three pulses in an ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber laser. The laser is mode-locked through nonlinear polarization rotation technique in a unidirectional cavity configuration. A pair of diffraction grating is incorporated in the cavity to compensate for the normal dispersion of the fiber. The laser generates chirped bound states of three pulses with either equal or different time separations, with more than 500-pJ energy per pulse. These pulses are subsequently compressed to 100 fs with a compression factor of more than 40.

Manipulating dissipative soliton ensembles in passively mode-locked fiber lasers

2014

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…

Potentialities of fiber lasers in the generation of coherent UV radiation

2006