We report a novel spontaneous soliton pattern formation in a figure-of-eight passively mode-locked erbium-doped double-clad fiber laser. It consists in a condensate phase in which there is almost periodic arrangement of alternate crystal and liquid soliton phases. Thanks to an adapted ansatz for the electric field, we perform a reconstruction allowing to clearly identify the soliton distribution along the cavity.

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Appl. Phys. B

• F. Amrani, A. Haboucha, M. Salhi, H. Leblond, A. Komarov, and F. Sanchez, “Dissipative solitons compounds in a fiber laser: Analogy with the states of the matter,” Appl. Phys. B 99(1-2), 107–114 (2010). [CrossRef]

Electron. Lett.

• K. Tamura, H. A. Haus, and E. P. Ippen, “Self-starting additive pulse mode-locked erbium fibre ring laser,” Electron. Lett. 28(24), 2226–2228 (1992). [CrossRef]
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IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

• M. Hofer, M. H. Ober, F. Haberl, and M. E. Fermann, “Characterization of ultrashort pulse formation in passively mode-locked fiber lasers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 28(3), 720–728 (1992). [CrossRef]

Opt. Commun.

• F. Amrani, M. Salhi, H. Leblond, and F. Sanchez, “Characterization of soliton compounds in a passively mode-locked high power fiber laser,” Opt. Commun. 283(24), 5224–5230 (2010). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

• S. Chouli and P. Grelu, “Rains of solitons in a fiber laser,” Opt. Express 17(14), 11776–11781 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

• Ph. Grelu, F. Belhache, F. Gutty, and J. M. Soto-Crespo, “Phase-locked soliton pairs in a stretched-pulse fiber laser,” Opt. Lett. 27(11), 966–968 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• F. Amrani, M. Salhi, Ph. Grelu, H. Leblond, and F. Sanchez, “Universal soliton pattern formations in passively mode-locked fiber lasers,” Opt. Lett. 36(9), 1545–1547 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Lett. A

• N. Akhmediev, A. Ankiewicz, J. M. Soto-Crespo, and J. M. Dudley, “Universal triangular spectra in parametrically driven systems,” Phys. Lett. A 375(3), 775–779 (2011). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. A

• S. Chouli and Ph. Grelu, “Soliton rains in a fiber laser: an experimental study,” Phys. Rev. A 81(6), 063829 (2010). [CrossRef]
• D. Y. Tang, W. S. Man, H. Y. Tam, and P. D. Drummond, “Observation of bound states of solitons in a passively modelocked fiber laser,” Phys. Rev. A 64(3), 033814 (2001). [CrossRef]
• A. Haboucha, H. Leblond, M. Salhi, A. Komarov, and F. Sanchez, “Analysis of soliton pattern formation in passively mode-locked fiber lasers,” Phys. Rev. A 78(4), 043806 (2008). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

• N. N. Akhmediev, A. Ankiewicz, and J. M. Soto-Crespo, “Multisoliton Solutions of the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 79(21), 4047–4051 (1997). [CrossRef]

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