Vector dark solitons in a single mode fibre laser

G. D. Shao, J. Guo, X. Hu, Y. F. Song, L. M. Zhao, D. Y. Tang*

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Abstract

We report on the first experimental observation of vector dark solitons in an erbium-doped single mode fiber ring laser. We show experimentally that two orthogonal linearly polarized dark solitons could couple together incoherently through the cross polarization phase modulation and form a bound state of dark solitons. In particular, the formed vector dark solitons are stable even under existence of high frequency periodic background intensity modulation. Numerical simulations have well confirmed the existence of vector dark solitons in single mode fiber lasers and their stability under periodic background intensity modulation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number085110
JournalLaser Physics Letters
Volume16
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 12 2019
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (190.4370) nonlinear optics, fibers; (190.5530) pulse propagation and temporal solitons. © 2019 Astro Ltd.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Instrumentation
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

Keywords

  • fibre laser
  • optical soliton
  • ultrafast fiber optics

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