On the study of pulse evolution in ultra-short pulse mode-locked fiber lasers by numerical simulations
Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 13, pp. 8252-8262 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.008252
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Abstract
In this contribution we highlight several aspects concerning the numerical simulation of ultra-short pulse mode-locked fiber lasers by a non-distributed model. We show that for fixed system parameters multiple attractors are accessible by different initial conditions especially in the transient region between different mode-locking regimes. The reduction of multiple attractors stabilizing from different quantum noise fields to a single solution by gain ramping is demonstrated. Based on this analysis and model, different regimes of mode-locking obtained by varying the intra-cavity dispersion and saturation energy of the gain fiber are revised and it is shown that a regime producing linearly chirped parabolic pulses known from self-similar evolution is embedded in the wave-breaking free mode-locking regime.
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OCIS Codes
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(140.4050) Lasers and laser optics : Mode-locked lasers
ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics
History
Original Manuscript: March 30, 2007
Revised Manuscript: May 2, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: May 5, 2007
Published: June 18, 2007
Citation
Thomas Schreiber, Bülend Ortaç, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann, "On the study of pulse evolution in ultra-short pulse mode-locked fiber lasers
by numerical simulations," Opt. Express 15, 8252-8262 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-13-8252
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