Abstract

A comprehensive lumped model approach has been presented in this paper for the simulation of a dispersion-managed active mode-locked fiber laser. A key aspect of our model is that it operates simultaneously at two different spectral scales, corresponding to the gain bandwidth of the erbium-doped fiber and the frequency content of the mode-locked laser (MLL) pulse. The lumped model consists of a detailed amplifier model that is evolved using a predictor–corrector-based adaptive approach. Convergence analysis of this algorithm is also presented in this paper, highlighting the step size reduction achieved when the amplifier migrates from linear to saturation regime. A simple adaptive frequency domain approach is followed to control the fine grid spectral points and the coarse grid wavelengths. Such an approach has been used to simulate a harmonic MLL cavity in two widely different dispersion regimes facilitated by a pair of chirped fiber Bragg gratings. We validate our model by comparing such simulated results with carefully planned experiments.

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