Ultrafast Science, Volume. 2, Issue 1, 9760631(2022)

Birefringence-Managed Normal-Dispersion Fiber Laser Delivering Energy-Tunable Chirp-Free Solitons

Dong Mao1, Zhiwen He1, Qun Gao1, Chao Zeng1, Ling Yun2, Yueqing Du1, Hua Lu1, Zhipei Sun3、*, and Jianlin Zhao1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Northwestern Polytechnical University, School of Physical Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Light Field Manipulation and Information Acquisition, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, Xi’an, China, 710129
  • 2Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Microelectronics, Nanjing, China, 210046
  • 3Aalto University, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering and QTF Centre of Excellence, Aalto, Finland
  • show less

    Chirp-free solitons have been mainly achieved with anomalous-dispersion fiber lasers by the balance of dispersive and nonlinear effects, and the single-pulse energy is constrained within a relatively small range. Here, we report a class of chirp-free pulse in normal-dispersion erbium-doped fiber lasers, termed birefringence-managed soliton, in which the birefringence-related phase-matching effect dominates the soliton evolution. Controllable harmonic mode locking from 5 order to 85 order is obtained at the same pump level of ~10 mW with soliton energy fully tunable beyond ten times, which indicates a new birefringence-related soliton energy law, which fundamentally differs from the conventional soliton energy theorem. The unique transformation behavior between birefringence-managed solitons and dissipative solitons is directly visualized via the single-shot spectroscopy. The results demonstrate a novel approach of engineering fiber birefringence to create energy-tunable chirp-free solitons in normal-dispersion regime and open new research directions in fields of optical solitons, ultrafast lasers, and their applications.

    Tools

    Get Citation

    Copy Citation Text

    Dong Mao, Zhiwen He, Qun Gao, Chao Zeng, Ling Yun, Yueqing Du, Hua Lu, Zhipei Sun, Jianlin Zhao. Birefringence-Managed Normal-Dispersion Fiber Laser Delivering Energy-Tunable Chirp-Free Solitons[J]. Ultrafast Science, 2022, 2(1): 9760631

    Download Citation

    EndNote(RIS)BibTexPlain Text
    Save article for my favorites
    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Mar. 10, 2022

    Accepted: Jul. 1, 2022

    Published Online: Sep. 28, 2023

    The Author Email: Sun Zhipei (zhipei.sun@aalto.fi), Zhao Jianlin (jlzhao@nwpu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.34133/2022/9760631

    Topics