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Optica, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 12(31), p. 3050, 2014

DOI: 10.1364/josab.31.003050

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Temporal cavity soliton formation in an anomalous dispersion cavity fiber laser

Journal article published in 2014 by D. Y. Tang, J. Guo, Y. F. Song, G. D. Shao, L. M. Zhao ORCID, D. Y. Shen
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Abstract

We show both theoretically and experimentally the temporal cavity soliton formation in a fiber ring laser. The cavity-induced modulation instability can automatically destabilize the CW operation of a fiber ring laser, transferring the CW laser beam into a periodic pulse train. Under strong laser emission, and particularly under the action of the effective gain bandwidth limitation, each pulse of the periodic pulse train could be further shaped into a dissipative soliton. The features of the temporal cavity solitons thus formed are experimentally studied and their similarity and difference to those of the mode-locked fiber lasers are discussed.