We report on the experimental observation of dissipative vector solitons (DVSs) in a dispersion-managed cavity fiber laser with large net positive cavity group velocity dispersion (GVD). Both the frequency-locked and phase-locked DVSs were observed. In addition, formation of multiple DVSs and DVS harmonic mode-locking were also experimentally revealed. Numerical simulations are in agreement of the experimental observations on the DVS formation in the fiber lasers.

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1. L. M. Zhao, D. Y. Tang, and J. Wu, "Gain-guided soliton in a positive group dispersion fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 31, 1788-1790 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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12. 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]

Opt. Commun.

• N. Akhmediev, A. Buryak, and J. M. Soto-Crespo, "Elliptically polarized solitons in birefringent optical fibers," Opt. Commun. 112, 278-282 (1994). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

• P. A. Bélanger, "Stable operation of mode-locked fiber lasers:similariton regime," Opt. Express 15, 11033-11040 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• H. Zhang, D. Y. Tang, L. M. Zhao, and N. Xiang, "Coherent energy exchange between components of a vector soliton in fiber lasers," Opt. Express 16, 12618-12623 (2008). [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

• N. N. Akhmediev, A. Ankiewicz, M. J. Lederer, and B. Luther-Davies, "Ultrashort pulses generated by mode-locked lasers with either a slow or a fast saturable-absorber response," Opt. Lett. 23, 280-282 (1998). [CrossRef]
• O. G. Okhotnikov, T. Jouhti, J. Konttinen, S. Karirnne, and M. Pessa, "1.5-µm monolithic GaInNAs semiconductor saturable-absorber mode locking of an erbium fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 28,364-366 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• M. Jiang, G. Sucha, M. E. Fermann, J. Jimenez, D. Harter, M. Dagenais, S. Fox, and Y. Hu, "Nonlinearly limited saturable-absorber mode-locking of an erbium fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 24,1074-1076 (1999). [CrossRef]
• L. M. Zhao, D. Y. Tang, and J. Wu, "Gain-guided soliton in a positive group dispersion fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 31, 1788-1790 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• L. M. Zhao, D. Y. Tang, T. H. Cheng, and C. Lu, "Gain-guided solitons in dispersion-managed fiber lasers with large net cavity dispersion," Opt. Lett. 31, 2957-2959 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• H. Zhang, D. Y. Tang, L. M. Zhao, and H. Y. Tam, "Induced solitons formed by cross polarization coupling in a birefringent cavity fiber laser," Opt. Lett. 33, 2317-2319 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. A

• 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.

• S. T. Cundiff, B. C. Collings, N. N. Akhmediev, J. M. Soto-Crespo, K. Bergman, and W. H. Knox, "Observation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in an Optical Fiber, " Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3988-3991 (1999). [CrossRef]

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