CHARACTERISTIC INSTABILITY OF FIBER LOOP SOLITON LASERS

被引:74
作者
PANDIT, N
NOSKE, DU
KELLY, SMJ
TAYLOR, JR
机构
[1] Femtosecond Optics Group, Physics Department, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, Prince Consort Road
关键词
STABILITY; OPTICAL FIBERS; LASERS;
D O I
10.1049/el:19920287
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
It is experimentally demonstrated that the inherent instability in short pulse, fibre loop, soliton lasers is associated with a resonant exchange of energy which takes place when the overall fibre loop size is comparable to that of the associated soliton period. The instability is characterised by the appearance of spectral sidebands, which can extend to several orders. In the time domain the instability can lead to multipulse outputs and chaotic or quasiperiodic behaviour.
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