Properties of a vector soliton laser passively mode-locked by a fiber-based semiconductor saturable absorber operating in transmission |
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| Authors: | Chunmei Ouyang Honghai Wang Ping Shum Songnian Fu Jia Haur Wong Kan Wu Desmond Rodney Chin Siong Lim Vincent Kwok Huei Wong Kenneth Eng Kian Lee |
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| Affiliation: | Network Technology Research Centre, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637553 |
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| Abstract: | We experimentally demonstrate a passively mode-locked fiber laser employing a fiber-based semiconductor saturable absorber (SSA) operating in transmission. Polarization rotation locked vector solitons are observed in the laser. Due to the intrinsic dynamic feature of the laser, period-doubling of these vector solitons has also been observed. Furthermore, extra spectral sidebands are formed on the optical spectrum, caused by the energy exchange between the two orthogonal polarization components of the vector solitons. By careful reduction of the pump power together with fine adjustment to the cavity birefringence, period-one state can further be obtained. Additionally, the phase noise properties of the vector soliton fiber laser have also been characterized experimentally and analytically. |
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| Keywords: | Semiconductor saturable absorber Vector soliton Polarization rotation locking |
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