Temporal bound solitons are observed experimentally in a passively mode-locked figure-eight fiber laser with a dispersion-imbalanced nonlinear optical loop mirror (DI-NOLM). Soliton interactions are suppressed by use of a spectral bandpass filter, and Gordon-Haus timing jitter is eliminated with a DI-NOLM, which removes the cw light component in the laser cavity. The bound solitons are found to be stable for several hours in the laser cavity when no external perturbation is applied.
We present a compact supercontinuum source using a dispersion-shifted fiber and an amplified diode-laser pulse source. Gain-switched DFB laser operating at 1550-nm wavelength, which provides 30-ps pulses, was used for generating the seeding pulses. And serially cascaded low-cost EDFAs were employed to boost the peak power of the pulses to more than 1 kW. Single-mode supercontinuum spanning nearly the full near-IR band was obtained by passing the amplified high-power pulses through a dispersion-shifted fiber. By investigating various characteristics of the supercontinuum generation, the walk-off between the spectral components was found to limit the effective interaction length of the spectrum-broadening effects. An optimal length of the fiber to obtain a flat spectrum was determined, which minimizes undesirable excessive Raman effect.
We have identified cascading of second-order nonlinear processes as the origin of previously reported, very large nonlinearities measured by self-phase-modulation experiments in organic single-crystal-core fibers of 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)-3-acetamidonitrobenzene.
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