Stable gain-guided soliton propagation in a polarized Yb-doped mode-locked fiber laser

Pedersen, MEV and Kelleher, EJR and Travers, JC and Sun, Z and Hasan, T and Ferrari, AC and Popov, SV and Taylor, JR (2012) Stable gain-guided soliton propagation in a polarized Yb-doped mode-locked fiber laser. IEEE Photonics Journal, 4. pp. 1058-1064. ISSN 1943-0655

Abstract

We demonstrate gain-guided dissipative soliton operation of a linearly polarized Yb-doped fiber laser, mode-locked by carbon nanotubes. In the regime of low nonlinear phase shift per cavity roundtrip, a dissipative soliton pulse can be supported by the finite gain bandwidth, without the need for strong spectral selection. The gain-guiding dynamics are confirmed by simulations. © 2012 IEEE.