Vector multi-soliton operation and interaction in a graphene mode-locked fiber laser

• Main Authors: Song, Yu Feng, Li, Lei, Zhang, Han, Shen, De Yuan, Tang, Dingyuan, Loh, Kian Ping
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97547; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11844
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We experimentally investigated the vector multi-soliton operation and vector soliton interaction in an erbium doped fiber laser passively mode locked by atomic layer graphene. It is found that the vector multi-soliton operation exhibited several characteristic modes. These are the random static distribution of vector solitons, stable bunches of vector solitons, restless oscillations of vector solitons, rain of vector solitons, and emission of a so-called giant vector soliton. The formation mechanisms of the operation modes were also experimentally investigated.