We report on the observation of central wavelength dynamics in an erbium-doped fiber ring laser by using the nonlinear polarization rotating technique. The evolution of central wavelength with the laser operation state was observed experimentally. Numerical simulations confirmed the experimental observation and further demonstrated that the dynamics of wavelength evolution is due to the combined effects of fiber birefringence, fiber nonlinearity, and cavity filter.

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1. D. Y. Tang, W. S. Man, and H. Y. Tam, "Stimulated soliton pulse formation and its mechanism in a passively mode-locked soliton laser," Opt. Commun. 165, 189-194 (1999). [CrossRef]
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Electron. Lett.

• V. J. Matsas, T. P. Newson, D. J. Richardson, and D. N. Payne, "Self-starting passively mode-locked fiber ring soliton laser exploiting nonlinear polarization rotation," Electron. Lett. 28, 1391-1393 (1992). [CrossRef]
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IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

• M. Horowitz and Y. Silberberg, "Control of noise-like pulse generation in Erbium-doped fiber lasers," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 10, 1389-1391 (1998). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

• W. S. Man, H. Y. Tam, M. S. Demokan, P. K. A. Wai, and D. Y. Tang, "Mechanism of intrinsic wavelength tuning and sideband asymmetry in a passively mode-locked soliton fiber ring laser," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 17, 28-33 (2000). [CrossRef]

Opt. Commun.

• D. Y. Tang, W. S. Man, and H. Y. Tam, "Stimulated soliton pulse formation and its mechanism in a passively mode-locked soliton laser," Opt. Commun. 165, 189-194 (1999). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

• D. Y. Tang, L. M. Zhao, and B. Zhao, "Soliton collapse and bunched noise-like pulse generation in a passively mode-locked fiber ring laser," Opt. Express 13, 2289-2294 (2005), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-13-7-2289 [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

• C. J. Chen, P. K. A. Wai, and C. R. Menyuk, "Soliton fiber ring laser," Opt. Lett. 17, 417-419 (1992). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Phys. Rev. A

• D. Y. Tang, B. Zhao, D. Y. Shen, C. Lu, W. S. Man, and H. Y. Tam, "Bound-soliton fiber laser," Phys. Rev. A 66, 033806 (2002). [CrossRef]
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• B. A. Malomed, "Bound solitons in the nonlinear Schrödinger-Ginzburg-Landau equation," Phys. Rev. A 44, 6954-6957 (1991). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• D. Y. Tang, L. M. Zhao, B. Zhao, and A. Q. Liu, "Mechanism of multisoliton formation and soliton energy quantization in passively mode-locked fiber lasers," Phys. Rev. A 72, 043816 (2005). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. E

• J. Wu, D. Y. Tang, L. M. Zhao, and C. C. Chan, "Soliton polarization dynamics in fiber lasers passively mode-locked by the nonlinear polarization rotation technique," Phys. Rev. E 74, 046605 (2006). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett

• M. Mitchell, M. Segev, and D. N. Christodoulides, "Observation of multihump multimode solitons," Phys. Rev. Lett 80, 4657-4660 (1998). [CrossRef]

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