1. Synchronized multi-wavelength soliton fiber laser via intracavity group delay modulation.
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Mao, Dong, Wang, Huaqiang, Zhang, Heze, Zeng, Chao, Du, Yueqing, He, Zhiwen, Sun, Zhipei, and Zhao, Jianlin
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MODE-locked lasers ,FIBER lasers ,OPTICAL resonators ,OPTICAL dispersion ,GROUP velocity ,WAVE packets - Abstract
Locking of longitudinal modes in laser cavities is the common path to generate ultrashort pulses. In traditional multi-wavelength mode-locked lasers, the group velocities rely on lasing wavelengths due to the chromatic dispersion, yielding multiple trains of independently evolved pulses. Here, we show that mode-locked solitons at different wavelengths can be synchronized inside the cavity by engineering the intracavity group delay with a programmable pulse shaper. Frequency-resolved measurements fully retrieve the fine temporal structure of pulses, validating the direct generation of synchronized ultrafast lasers from two to five wavelengths with sub-pulse repetition-rate up to ~1.26 THz. Simulation results well reproduce and interpret the key experimental phenomena, and indicate that the saturable absorption effect automatically synchronize multi-wavelength solitons in despite of the small residual group delay difference. These results demonstrate an effective approach to create synchronized complex-structure solitons, and offer an effective platform to study the evolution dynamics of nonlinear wavepackets. The coherence degradation of pulses synchronized to optical cavities is an issue for ultrahigh-repetition-rate lasing. Here the authors demonstrate synchronized multi-wavelength mode-locked soliton fiber lasers generating ultrafast outputs from two to five wavelengths with a high sub-pulse repetition rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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