Rains of solitons in a fiber laser

Opt Express. 2009 Jul 6;17(14):11776-81. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.011776.

Abstract

We report a novel and intriguing nonlinear dynamics observed in a fiber laser cavity, in which soliton pulses are created from an extended noisy background and drift until they reach a condensed phase comprising several tens of aggregated solitons. This soliton flow can be adjusted with manual cavity tuning, and can even be triggered by the injection of an external low-power cw laser.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Fiber Optic Technology*
  • Lasers*
  • Light
  • Optical Fibers*
  • Optics and Photonics / instrumentation*
  • Optics and Photonics / methods
  • Oscillometry / methods
  • Time Factors