Recent advances and challenges on dark solitons in fiber lasers

S Yang, QY Zhang, ZW Zhu, YY Qi, P Yin, YQ Ge… - Optics & Laser …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dark solitons feature local dips on a modulationally stable continuous-wave background.
Compared with bright solitons, the dark solitons in fiber lasers are more stable in noise …

Real‐time investigation of ultrafast dynamics through time‐stretched dispersive fourier transform in mode‐locked fiber lasers

KY Lau, Y Cui, X Liu, J Qiu - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Real‐time investigation in mode‐locked fiber lasers (MLFLs) is important to understand the
ultrafast dynamics before, during, and after the formation of stable laser pulses. However …

Breathing dissipative soliton explosions in a bidirectional ultrafast fiber laser

Y Zhou, YX Ren, J Shi, KKY Wong - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Soliton explosions, among the most exotic dynamics, have been extensively studied on
parameter invariant stationary solitons. However, the explosion dynamics are still largely …

Dynamics of carbon nanotube-based mode-locking fiber lasers

L Huang, Y Zhang, X Liu - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Carbon nanotube (CNT) can work as excellent saturable absorber (SA) due to its
advantages of fast recovery, low saturation intensity, polarization insensitivity, deep …

Single-cavity dual-comb fiber lasers and their applications

J Yang, X Zhao, L Zhang, Z Zheng - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Single-cavity, dual-comb lasers are those specially designed mode-locked lasers that can
emit more than one, asynchronous ultrashort pulse trains with stable repetition frequency …

Observation of the “invisible” pulsation of soliton molecules in a bidirectional ultrafast fiber laser

Q Wang, P Wang, Q Xu, Z Shi, J He, Z Wang, Y Liu - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A novel optical soliton dynamics phenomenon, called “invisible” pulsation, has gradually
attracted extensive interest in recent years, which can only be identified effectively with the …

Switchable property of dissipative soliton and dispersion-management soliton in fiber laser

Y Zhang, K Dai, D Chen - Optics & Laser Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
We numerically and experimentally demonstrated that the central wavelength of the output
pulses in an Er-doped mode-locked fiber laser can be switched from∼ 1561 to∼ 1531 nm …

Decaying dynamics of harmonic mode-locking in a SESAM-based mode-locked fiber laser

X Ma, K Zhang, C Li, K Chen, Y Zhou, W Zhang… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The entire decaying dynamics of harmonic mode-locking (HML) are studied utilizing the
dispersive Fourier transform (DFT) technique in a SESAM-based mode-locked fiber laser. It …

Dynamics of breathing dissipative soliton pairs in a bidirectional ultrafast fiber laser

Y Zhou, YX Ren, J Shi, KKY Wong - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The breathing dissipative soliton as a dynamic solution to many nonlinear systems has
induced substantial interest in nonlinear photonics and ultrafast laser science. However, the …

Single-shot dynamics of dual-comb generation in a polarization-multiplexing fiber laser

A Rodriguez Cuevas, I Kudelin, H Kbashi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Dual optical frequency combs have been a recurrent case of study over the last decade due
to their wide use in a variety of metrology applications. Utilizing a single cavity laser to …