Vector Effects of Dissipative Soliton in All-Fiber MOPA System

The performance of seed laser source will have a great impact on the output pulse quality of the master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system. Here, we report the influence of the soliton vector features on the pulse uniformity in an all-fiber MOPA configuration. We demonstrated that, although th...

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Main Authors: Xiang-Yue Li, Shi-Lin Liu, Meng Liu, Ai-Ping Luo, Zhi-Chao Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu
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Meng Liu
Ai-Ping Luo
Zhi-Chao Luo
Wen-Cheng Xu
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Shi-Lin Liu
Meng Liu
Ai-Ping Luo
Zhi-Chao Luo
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description The performance of seed laser source will have a great impact on the output pulse quality of the master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system. Here, we report the influence of the soliton vector features on the pulse uniformity in an all-fiber MOPA configuration. We demonstrated that, although the intensity of the dissipative soliton seed source is uniform, the intensity of the output pulse train from the MOPA will show fluctuations if the soliton polarization state is not locked, i.e., polarization-rotating vector soliton. It is found that the appearance of non-uniform pulse intensity is caused by the combination of the polarization instability and the polarization dependent gain in the polarization maintaining fiber amplifier. The obtained results indicate that the polarization evolution of seed pulsed source is critical to generation of stable pulse train from the MOPA, and also might be useful to the communities dealing with solitons and high-power pulsed fiber lasers.
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spelling doaj-art-417e8a0ccc2b425c91d091c61b4556742025-08-20T03:15:48ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552019-01-011161810.1109/JPHOT.2019.29415638844080Vector Effects of Dissipative Soliton in All-Fiber MOPA SystemXiang-Yue Li0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4218-6301Shi-Lin Liu1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5468-2105Meng Liu2Ai-Ping Luo3Zhi-Chao Luo4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1692-2678Wen-Cheng Xu5Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices & Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices & Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices & Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices & Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices & Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices & Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaThe performance of seed laser source will have a great impact on the output pulse quality of the master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system. Here, we report the influence of the soliton vector features on the pulse uniformity in an all-fiber MOPA configuration. We demonstrated that, although the intensity of the dissipative soliton seed source is uniform, the intensity of the output pulse train from the MOPA will show fluctuations if the soliton polarization state is not locked, i.e., polarization-rotating vector soliton. It is found that the appearance of non-uniform pulse intensity is caused by the combination of the polarization instability and the polarization dependent gain in the polarization maintaining fiber amplifier. The obtained results indicate that the polarization evolution of seed pulsed source is critical to generation of stable pulse train from the MOPA, and also might be useful to the communities dealing with solitons and high-power pulsed fiber lasers.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8844080/Dissipative vector solitonsfiber lasersMOPAhigh-energy pulses.
spellingShingle Xiang-Yue Li
Shi-Lin Liu
Meng Liu
Ai-Ping Luo
Zhi-Chao Luo
Wen-Cheng Xu
Vector Effects of Dissipative Soliton in All-Fiber MOPA System
IEEE Photonics Journal
Dissipative vector solitons
fiber lasers
MOPA
high-energy pulses.
title Vector Effects of Dissipative Soliton in All-Fiber MOPA System
title_full Vector Effects of Dissipative Soliton in All-Fiber MOPA System
title_fullStr Vector Effects of Dissipative Soliton in All-Fiber MOPA System
title_full_unstemmed Vector Effects of Dissipative Soliton in All-Fiber MOPA System
title_short Vector Effects of Dissipative Soliton in All-Fiber MOPA System
title_sort vector effects of dissipative soliton in all fiber mopa system
topic Dissipative vector solitons
fiber lasers
MOPA
high-energy pulses.
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8844080/
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