• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 8, Issue 3, 246 (2020)
Meng Liu1, Ti-Jian Li1, Ai-Ping Luo1, Wen-Cheng Xu1、2、*, and Zhi-Chao Luo1、3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Special Fiber Photonic Devices and Applications & Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • 2e-mail: xuwch@scnu.edu.cn
  • 3e-mail: zcluo@scnu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.377966 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Meng Liu, Ti-Jian Li, Ai-Ping Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu, Zhi-Chao Luo. “Periodic” soliton explosions in a dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(3): 246 Copy Citation Text show less
    Schematic of the Yb-doped fiber laser in this experiment.
    Fig. 1. Schematic of the Yb-doped fiber laser in this experiment.
    Single-wavelength mode-locking operation. (a) Spectrum; (b) pulse train, inset: autocorrelation trace; (c) RF spectrum; (d) shot-to-shot spectra with 1000 round-trips.
    Fig. 2. Single-wavelength mode-locking operation. (a) Spectrum; (b) pulse train, inset: autocorrelation trace; (c) RF spectrum; (d) shot-to-shot spectra with 1000 round-trips.
    Dual-wavelength mode-locking operation. (a) Spectrum; (b) pulse train; (c) RF spectrum; (d) pulse evolution before the DFT process (see Visualization 1); (e) stretched pulse evolution after the DFT process (see Visualization 2), inset: pulse energy.
    Fig. 3. Dual-wavelength mode-locking operation. (a) Spectrum; (b) pulse train; (c) RF spectrum; (d) pulse evolution before the DFT process (see Visualization 1); (e) stretched pulse evolution after the DFT process (see Visualization 2), inset: pulse energy.
    Pulses (a) before and (b) after the DFT process of several typical round-trips during the soliton collision process.
    Fig. 4. Pulses (a) before and (b) after the DFT process of several typical round-trips during the soliton collision process.
    (a) Pulse train after the DFT process with a large time range; (b), (c) two other soliton collision processes.
    Fig. 5. (a) Pulse train after the DFT process with a large time range; (b), (c) two other soliton collision processes.
    Intensity histogram on log scale of dual-wavelength state. SWH is ∼0.219 V.
    Fig. 6. Intensity histogram on log scale of dual-wavelength state. SWH is 0.219  V.
    Meng Liu, Ti-Jian Li, Ai-Ping Luo, Wen-Cheng Xu, Zhi-Chao Luo. “Periodic” soliton explosions in a dual-wavelength mode-locked Yb-doped fiber laser[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(3): 246
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