CW-pumped polarization-maintaining Brillouin fiber ring laser: I. Self-structuration of Brillouin solitons

Jean Botineau (1) , Gérard Cheval (1) , Carlos Montes (1)

1 LPMC - Laboratoire de physique de la matière condensée

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) of a cw-pump in a long optical fiber ring cavity generates for a given gain G, below a critical feedback Rcrit, a backward soliton Stokes pulse at the roundtrip repetition rate, through resonant three- wave interaction between the optical pump wave and backward Stokes wave, and a high frequency (GHz) axial acoustic wave. In Part I, we perform a systematic experimental and numerical exploration of the whole soliton localisation domain for a large set of (G, R) parameters, in a polarization-maintaining Brillouin fiber ring laser in the best conditions of stability and coherence, and we confirm the excellent quantitative agreement of the coherent three-wave model and the experiments.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]; Formation de Structures et Solitons [nlin.PS]

Jean Botineau, Gérard Cheval, Carlos Montes. CW-pumped polarization-maintaining Brillouin fiber ring laser: I. Self-structuration of Brillouin solitons. Optics Communications, 2006, 257, pp.319-333. ⟨10.1016/j.optcom.2005.07.049⟩. ⟨hal-00460390⟩