Observation of bound states of solitons in a passively mode-locked fiber laser

• Main Authors: Tang, D. Y., Man, W. S., Tam, H. Y., Drummond, P. D.
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Ground State; Laser Mode Locking
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88746; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44707
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We report on an experimental observation of bound states of solitons in a passively mode-locked fiber soliton ring laser. The observed bound solitons are stable and have discrete, fixed soliton separations that are independent of the experimental conditions.