• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 19, Issue 11, 111903 (2021)
Jiazhu Wang, Liang Jin*, Shangzhi Xie, Renyan Wang, He Zhang, Yingtian Xu, Xin Zhao, Yan Li, and Xiaohui Ma
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  • National Key Laboratory on High-power Semiconductor Lasers, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202119.111903 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jiazhu Wang, Liang Jin, Shangzhi Xie, Renyan Wang, He Zhang, Yingtian Xu, Xin Zhao, Yan Li, Xiaohui Ma. Vector dynamics of ultrafast cylindrical vector beams in a mode-locked fiber laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(11): 111903 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The vector dynamics of solitons are crucial but easily neglected for realizing vortex solitons. In this Letter, we investigate the effect of vector dynamics on cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) implementation and propose a novel technical method to realize femtosecond CVBs based on vector-locked solitons, which are presented as group-velocity-locked vector solitons (GVLVSs) in the experiment. The outstanding vector properties of GVLVSs not only greatly improve the efficiency of solitons converted into CVBs and output power of CVBs (2.4 times and 4.1 times that of scalar solitons and vector change periodical solitons, with the purity of 97.2%), but also relax the obstacle of ultrafast CVBs from the fundamental frequency to the harmonic regime (up to 198 MHz) for the first time, to the best of our knowledge. This is the highest repetition rate reported for ultrafast CVBs based on passive mode-locking. The investigation of the influence of solitons vector dynamics evolution on the realization of CVBs provides guidance for the excellent performance of ultrafast CVBs.
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    Jiazhu Wang, Liang Jin, Shangzhi Xie, Renyan Wang, He Zhang, Yingtian Xu, Xin Zhao, Yan Li, Xiaohui Ma. Vector dynamics of ultrafast cylindrical vector beams in a mode-locked fiber laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(11): 111903
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