Soliton trapping in fiber lasers
- 13 June 2008
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 16 (13) , 9528-9533
Abstract
We report on the soliton trapping in a fiber ring laser mode-locked with a SESAM. It was observed that solitons along the two orthogonal polarization directions of the cavity with fairly large difference in central frequency and energy could be coupled together to form a group velocity locked vector soliton. In particular, due to that each of the coupled solitons forms its own soliton sidebands, two sets of soliton sidebands could be observed on the vector soliton spectrum. Numerical simulations have well confirmed the experimental observations.Keywords
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