Generation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in Mode-Locked Thulium Fiber Laser
In this paper, we report polarization-locked vector soliton (PLVS) generation in a linear thulium-doped fiber laser. The fiber laser was composed of all-anomalous-dispersion fibers, passively mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. Approximately 1.2-ps single vector soliton pulse...
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| description | In this paper, we report polarization-locked vector soliton (PLVS) generation in a linear thulium-doped fiber laser. The fiber laser was composed of all-anomalous-dispersion fibers, passively mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. Approximately 1.2-ps single vector soliton pulses centered at 2023.7 nm were generated. Extra “peak-dip” spectral sidebands were clearly visible in the polarization-resolved optical spectra, indicating coherent energy exchange between the two polarization components of the vector solitons. In addition, multiple-PLVS operation modes were experimentally investigated, and our experimental results were confirmed by numerical simulations. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first observation of polarization-locked single vector soliton generation operating in the 2-μm spectral range. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3eed5f84a797461c90d83033429cd0422025-08-20T03:31:23ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552018-01-011011810.1109/JPHOT.2017.27893028246489Generation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in Mode-Locked Thulium Fiber LaserX. L. Fan0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0509-2621Y. Wang1W. Zhou2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0488-2309X. J. Ren3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0789-8015Z. F. Hu4Q. Y. Liu5R. J. Zhang6D. Y. Shen7Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, ChinaJiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, ChinaJiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, ChinaKey Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, ChinaJiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, ChinaKey Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, ChinaKey Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, ChinaKey Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, ChinaIn this paper, we report polarization-locked vector soliton (PLVS) generation in a linear thulium-doped fiber laser. The fiber laser was composed of all-anomalous-dispersion fibers, passively mode-locked with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. Approximately 1.2-ps single vector soliton pulses centered at 2023.7 nm were generated. Extra “peak-dip” spectral sidebands were clearly visible in the polarization-resolved optical spectra, indicating coherent energy exchange between the two polarization components of the vector solitons. In addition, multiple-PLVS operation modes were experimentally investigated, and our experimental results were confirmed by numerical simulations. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first observation of polarization-locked single vector soliton generation operating in the 2-μm spectral range.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8246489/Fiber lasersmode-locked lasersfiber nonlinear opticsvector solitons |
| spellingShingle | X. L. Fan Y. Wang W. Zhou X. J. Ren Z. F. Hu Q. Y. Liu R. J. Zhang D. Y. Shen Generation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in Mode-Locked Thulium Fiber Laser IEEE Photonics Journal Fiber lasers mode-locked lasers fiber nonlinear optics vector solitons |
| title | Generation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in Mode-Locked Thulium Fiber Laser |
| title_full | Generation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in Mode-Locked Thulium Fiber Laser |
| title_fullStr | Generation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in Mode-Locked Thulium Fiber Laser |
| title_full_unstemmed | Generation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in Mode-Locked Thulium Fiber Laser |
| title_short | Generation of Polarization-Locked Vector Solitons in Mode-Locked Thulium Fiber Laser |
| title_sort | generation of polarization locked vector solitons in mode locked thulium fiber laser |
| topic | Fiber lasers mode-locked lasers fiber nonlinear optics vector solitons |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8246489/ |
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