Abstract

We report on the operation of a passively mode-locked fiber ring laser made of purely positive dispersion fibers and mode-locked by using the nonlinear polarization rotation technique. It was experimentally found that apart from the gain-guided soliton operation the laser can also emit a kind of noise-like pulse. We show numerically that the noise-like pulse emission is caused by the peak power clamping effect of the laser cavity on the gain-guided soliton.

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History
Original Manuscript: August 1, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: November 8, 2006
Revised Manuscript: November 6, 2006
Published: March 5, 2007

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Author Affiliations

L. M. Zhao

Nanyang Technological University

X. Q. Fu, S. C. Wen

School of Computer and Communication, Hunan University

D. Y. Tang, J. Wu

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

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