Nonlinear pulse shaping and polarization dynamics in mode-locked fibre lasers

S. Sergeyev (1) , Sonia Boscolo (1) , Chengbo Mou (1) , Christophe Finot (2) , S.K Turitsyn (1)

1 AIPT - Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies
2 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

We review our recent progress on the study of new nonlinear mechanisms of pulse shaping in passively mode-locked fibre lasers. These include a mode-locking regime featuring pulses with a triangular distribution of the intensity, and spectral compression arising from nonlinear pulse propagation. We also report on our recent experimental studies unveiling new families of vector solitons with precessing states of polarization for multi-pulsing and bound-state soliton operations in a carbon nanotube mode-locked fibre laser with anomalous dispersion cavity.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

S. Sergeyev, Sonia Boscolo, Chengbo Mou, Christophe Finot, S.K Turitsyn. Nonlinear pulse shaping and polarization dynamics in mode-locked fibre lasers. 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Network, Jun 2013, Carthagène, Spain. ⟨10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602708⟩. ⟨hal-00829246⟩