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Multiplexed ultrafast fiber laser emitting multi-state solitons
摘要： Ultrafast fiber lasers have been serving as an ideal playground for spreading the extensive industrial applications and exploring the optics nonlinear dynamics. Here, we report a bidirectional fiber laser scheme for validating the possibility of a multiplexed laser system, which is passively mode-locked by the nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) technique. In particular, the proposed fiber laser consists of one main cavity and two counter-propagating branches with different dispersion distributions. Thus, different formation mechanisms are introduced into the lasing oscillator. Consequently, stable conventional solitons (CSs) and dissipative solitons (DSs) are respectively formed in the clockwise (CW) and counterclockwise (CCW) directions of the same lasing oscillator. Moreover, attributing to the strong birefringence filtering effect, the wavelength selection mechanism is induced. Through the proper management of intra-cavity birefringence, wideband wavelength tuning and switchable multi-wavelength operations are experimentally observed. The central wavelength of CS can be continuously tuned from 1560 nm to 1602 nm. Additionally, the evolution process of different multi-wavelength operations is also elucidated. Benefiting from this multiplexed laser scheme, bidirectional lasing oscillation, multi-state soliton emission, wavelength tuning and multi-wavelength operations are synchronously realized in a single laser cavity. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time for such a multiplexed fiber laser has been reported. The results provide information for multifunctional ultrafast fiber laser system, which is potentially set for telecommunications, fiber sensing and optics signal processing, etc.
关键词： multi-wavelength operations,nonlinear polarization rotation,wavelength tuning,Ultrafast fiber lasers,dissipative solitons,conventional solitons
更新于2025-11-28 14:24:03
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2.01～ 2.42 μm all-fiber femtosecond Raman soliton generation in a heavily germanium doped fiber
摘要： We demonstrated that an all-fiber system generates high-performance mid-infrared Raman solitons in a heavily germanium doped fiber (HGDF). A 10 m-long HGDF with a 12 μm core diameter and 64 mol.% GeO2 dopant is designed and pumped by a home-made 1.96 μm femtosecond fiber laser in the strong anomalous dispersion region. Stable and single-color Raman solitons are therefore obtained with a continuous wavelength tunability from 2.01 to 2.42 μm. The pulse duration of the mid-infrared Raman solitons can be as short as ~220 fs. The efficiency of energy transfer to a Raman soliton is about 32.5%, while the maximum average power, peak power and pulse energy are up to 27 mW, 3.6 kW and ~1 nJ, respectively. Different from previous multi-color Raman or supercontinuum-like generation from HGDFs pumped in the near-zero or normal dispersion regime, such pure mid-infrared Raman solitons exhibit excellent stability with a radio-frequency signal-to-noise ratio of ~60 dB. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of >2.4 μm stable Raman solitons in an all-fiber system. This work may pave a path towards compact and high-performance mid-infrared femtosecond fiber laser sources.
关键词： soliton self-frequency shift,Ultrafast fiber lasers,heavily germanium doped fiber,mid-infrared
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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[IEEE 2019 18th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) - Huangshan, China (2019.8.5-2019.8.8)] 2019 18th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) - Dynamics of asymmetric soliton explosions in ultrafast fiber lasers
摘要： Asymmetric soliton explosions are numerically demonstrated in an all-normal-dispersion Yb-doped mode-locked fiber laser based on a lumped model. It is found that the explosion events manifest themselves when the pump strength is tuned to reside between stationary dissipative soliton and noise-like pulse regimes. Remarkably, although the initial conditions and the model itself are symmetric, the explosions occur only at one edge of the soliton, i.e., the pulse leading and trailing edges explode alternately. Our results pave the way for further investigation on the dynamics of soliton explosions in ultrafast fiber lasers.
关键词： Soliton explosions,Ultrafast fiber lasers,Dissipative soliton
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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[IEEE 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Munich, Germany (2019.6.23-2019.6.27)] 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Buildup of Noise-Like Pulses in Ultrafast Fiber Lasers
摘要： Noise-like pulses (NLP) - the emission of sub-nanosecond incoherent pulses in ultrafast lasers - are a topic of widespread attention, owing to their fundamental and applied interest [1]. Their existence seems paradoxical, combining the high temporal localization of circulating pulses akin to mode-locking, with a fundamental instability that entails large fluctuations [2]. NLPs can be considered as incoherent dissipative solitons [3]. It is therefore of considerable interest to investigate the self-emergence of these pulses in the laser. We undertake this study experimentally using the time-stretch dispersive Fourier transform (DFT), recording the pulse spectral and temporal information in real time over successive cavity roundtrips [4]. The buildup dynamics of noise-like pulses in both anomalous and normal-dispersion fiber lasers are compared, revealing markedly different stages and timescales in the evolution process.
关键词： anomalous dispersion,normal dispersion,Noise-like pulses,ultrafast fiber lasers,dispersive Fourier transform
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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35 fs, all-polarization-maintaining MOPA laser system
摘要： We have experimentally observed ultrashort pulse in a simple, all-polarization-maintaining fiber, master oscillator and power amplifier laser. A semiconductor saturable mirror (SESAM) module is used as the mode locker. The ultrashort pulse exhibits perfect Gaussian spectrum without any fine structure. The 20 dB pulse spectral width is 28 nm, and the pulse duration directly output from the oscillator is 268.6 fs. Via a two-stage amplifier, the pulse spectrum is greatly broadened to 43 nm, and the pulse duration lengths to 0.9 ps. Moreover, after compression, a typical saddle-shaped spectrum appears and the spectral bandwidth broadens to 121 nm; the pulse duration is compressed to ~35 fs with a pulse peak power of 22.79 kW, which is high enough to stimulate a one-octave supercontinuum spectrum. Due to the polarization-maintaining structure and high reliability of SESAM, the whole system exhibits strong environmental stability. Experimental observation reveals that such a fiber laser with a very simple structure exhibits excellent performance, and could be applied in the area of optical frequency comb.
关键词： ultrafast fiber lasers,pulse propagation and temporal solitons,pulse compression
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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Optical microfiber-based ultrafast fiber lasers
摘要： Optical microfibers drawn from conventional fibers have attracted considerable interests and have found many novel applications. Here, we review recent advances in ultrafast fiber lasers based on optical microfibers. Starting with characteristics and fabrication of optical microfibers, which are closely related to ultrafast fiber lasers, we show that characteristics of large portion of evanescent field, tailorable dispersion, high optical nonlinearity, very low optical loss and full compatibility with conventional fibers are greatly beneficial to novel ultrafast fiber lasers. We then highlight recent works on ultrafast fiber lasers based on optical microfibers in terms of fast saturable absorbers made from optical microfiber-supported nanomaterials, dispersion management and high optical nonlinearity, as well as some other novel ultrafast fiber lasers. Finally, we briefly discuss future opportunities for optical microfiber-based ultrafast fiber lasers, such as high-order dispersion management, nonlinearity management and applications for sensing and measurement.
关键词： Dispersion management,Saturable absorbers,Ultrafast fiber lasers,Optical microfibers,Optical nonlinearity
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22
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[IEEE 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Munich, Germany (2019.6.23-2019.6.27)] 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Label-Free Multiphoton Microscopy in Human Tissue Enabled by an Er:Fiber-Laser Based Tunable Source
摘要： Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) is an important bio-imaging tool. Different modalities can serve as a contrast agent, such as second-/third-harmonic generation (SHG/THG) and two-/three-photon excitation fluorescence (2PEF/3PEF). Ultrafast lasers with flexible wavelength tunability are crucial for driving MPM bio-imaging, and the conventional solution relies on ultrafast Ti:sapphire lasers plus an optical parametric oscillator/amplifier. Recently, we have demonstrated that ultrafast fiber lasers are a potential solution to implementing compact, robust, and wavelength tunable femtosecond sources for driving MPM. To realize wavelength tunability we employ self-phase modulation (SPM) in optical fibers to broaden a narrowband input spectrum of Yb-/Er-doped fiber lasers (YDFLs/EDFLs) up to >400-nm wide with well-isolated spectral lobes; filtering the leftmost/rightmost lobes leads to nearly transform-limited pulses [1–6]. Such a SPM-enabled spectral selection (SESS) allows us to obtain wavelength widely tunable femtosecond pulses for MPM [2,5,6]. In this submission, we representatively demonstrate label-free harmonic generation microscopy (HGM) in human skin and brain tissues. Figure 1(a) depicts a scanning microscope driven by an EDFL-based SESS source. The EDFL operates at 31-MHz repetition rate and generates 290-fs pulses centered at 1550 nm. The narrowband EDFL [blue curve in Fig. 1(a)] is coupled into 9-cm optical fiber (10-μm mode-field diameter and -10 fs2/mm group-velocity dispersion at 1550 nm). The output spectrum is shown as the red curve in Fig. 1(b) under 85-nJ coupled pulse energy. We use optical filters to select the leftmost spectral lobe peaking at 1250 nm, which leads to 11.7-nJ, 47-fs pulses. Then we employ these pulses to drive a scanning microscope and conduct HGM in human skin and brain tissues. Figure 1(c) shows the dermal papilla at the junction of epidermis and upper dermis in human skin. Basal cells are visualized by THG (cyan hot) due to optical inhomogeneity at the interface (e.g., cell membrane); SHG (red hot) originates from the non-centrosymmetric structure of collagen fibers. In Fig. 1(d), neural network and brain vasculature in human brain tissue can be visualized by THG and SHG, respectively [Fig. 1(d)]. THG contrast inside the vasculature shows also red blood cells. In conclusion, we report on MPM deep-tissue imaging enabled by an EDFL-based SESS source. It is noteworthy that besides HGM excited by 1250-nm femtosecond pulses demonstrated here, the SESS source also supports 1300-/1700-nm illumination for 3PEF of green/red fluorescent protein (GFP/RFP) [7,8]. Such a fiber-based solution can be applied to many important applications, such as histopathology, morphology, and neuroscience.
关键词： ultrafast fiber lasers,Multiphoton microscopy,self-phase modulation,bio-imaging,harmonic generation microscopy
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22
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Femtosecond Soliton Erbium-doped Fiber Laser with a Symmetrical GIMF-SIMF-GIMF Saturable Absorber
摘要： A femtosecond soliton erbium-doped fiber ring laser with the symmetrical saturable absorber (SA) of graded index multimode fiber-step index multimode fiber-graded index multimode fiber (GIMF-SIMF-GIMF) is proposed and proved. Based on the nonlinear multimode interference (NL-MMI) effect of SA, the fiber laser achieved femtosecond soliton mode-locking operation and repetition rate tuning. The duration of soliton was 364 fs at 1562.5 nm and repetition rate was tunable from 10.29 MHz to 763.36 MHz. In the structure of SA, a short step index multimode fiber (SIMF) was inserted between two graded index multimode fibers (GIMFs) to generate more high-order modes，adjust the self-focusing length, and improve operation stability of mode-locked fiber laser. The SA also has the advantages of immunity to the external environment variation, high damage threshold and inoxidizability, which make the laser operate stably for a long time.
关键词： Femtosecond soliton,ultrafast fiber lasers.,mode-locked fiber lasers,nonlinear multimode interference
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04
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[IEEE 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Munich, Germany (2019.6.23-2019.6.27)] 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) - Optical Soliton Molecular Complexes in Ultrafast Fiber Lasers
摘要： Optical soliton molecules are under intense research focus, owing in particular to the interesting analogies between their self-assembly and internal dynamics, and those of matter molecules. Two interacting dissipative solitons can form a soliton-pair molecule, which can behave as a robust entity traveling around the cavity for an indefinite time [1]. The internal oscillatory dynamics of soliton molecules can be compared to molecular vibrations, though they are fundamentally different [2,3]. The recent experimental investigations in Refs. [2,3] have been enabled by the dispersive Fourier transform (DFT) technique, which allows recording spectral measurements at multi-MHz frame rates. They showed the existence of various oscillatory dynamics among soliton-pair and soliton-triplet basic molecules. Following the analogy between light and matter molecules, we now consider the experimental possibility of forming a “soliton molecular complex” (SMC), namely, a higher-order pattern obtained by the stable bonding of several soliton molecules, and investigating its complex internal dynamics. Such structure implies two different bond types, a strong one within each soliton molecule, and a weaker one to maintain the overall structure. We here report the first real-time recording and analysis of several internal dynamics of SMCs, which support this new structural concept. We shall describe our results concerning the dynamics of the fundamental SMC, made of two soliton-pair molecules, or (2+2)-SMC. The experimental configuration is based on an erbium-doped fiber ring laser, which is mode-locked by means of nonlinear polarization evolution (NPE), and its output spectrum analyzed in real-time through DFT [4]. The formation of various SMC is controlled by the laser output power and the tuning of NPE through the orientation of intracavity waveplates, in an experimental procedure which utilizes the hysteretic laser behavior in the multi-pulse regime. SMCs with sliding-phase and oscillating-phase dynamics have been characterized by real-time spectral interferometry measurements, thus revealing the dynamics of the major internal degrees of freedom of the complexes, namely the dynamics of the relative temporal and phase separations between the different soliton constituents. Numerical simulations confirm the experimental observations and offer an additional insight into the understanding of the complex dynamics of SMCs. By showing that soliton molecules can form various bonds according to the distance between soliton constituents, which we can manipulate, this work opens the way to the manipulation of large-scale optical- soliton complexes, which can be extended to other photonic platforms, such as microresonators.
关键词： soliton molecular complex,Optical soliton molecules,nonlinear polarization evolution,ultrafast fiber lasers,dispersive Fourier transform
更新于2025-09-11 14:15:04