Recent progress of study on optical solitons in fiber lasers

Y Song, X Shi, C Wu, D Tang, H Zhang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Solitons are stable localized wave packets that can propagate long distance in dispersive
media without changing their shapes. As particle-like nonlinear localized waves, solitons …

The bright prospects of optical solitons after 50 years

A Blanco-Redondo, CM de Sterke, C Xu, S Wabnitz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The idea of temporal solitons in optical fibres as a means to compensate for the chromatic
dispersion-induced temporal broadening of pulses via the intensity-dependent refractive …

Applications of Few-Layer Nb2C MXene: Narrow-Band Photodetectors and Femtosecond Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers

L Gao, C Ma, S Wei, AV Kuklin, H Zhang, H Ågren - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although the physicochemical properties of niobium carbide (Nb2C) have been widely
investigated, their exploration in the field of photoelectronics is still at the infancy stage with …

Real-time spectral interferometry probes the internal dynamics of femtosecond soliton molecules

G Herink, F Kurtz, B Jalali, DR Solli, C Ropers - Science, 2017 - science.org
Solitons, particle-like excitations ubiquitous in many fields of physics, have been shown to
exhibit bound states akin to molecules. The formation of such temporal soliton bound states …

Breathing dissipative solitons in mode-locked fiber lasers

J Peng, S Boscolo, Z Zhao, H Zeng - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Dissipative solitons are self-localized coherent structures arising from the balance between
energy supply and dissipation. Besides stationary dissipative solitons, there are dynamical …

Real-time observation of internal motion within ultrafast dissipative optical soliton molecules

K Krupa, K Nithyanandan, U Andral, P Tchofo-Dinda… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Real-time access to the internal ultrafast dynamics of complex dissipative optical systems
opens new explorations of pulse-pulse interactions and dynamic patterns. We present the …

Optical soliton molecular complexes in a passively mode-locked fibre laser

ZQ Wang, K Nithyanandan, A Coillet… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrashort optical pulses propagating in a dissipative nonlinear system can interact and bind
stably, forming optical soliton molecules. Soliton molecules in ultrafast lasers are under …

Dissipative solitons for mode-locked lasers

P Grelu, N Akhmediev - Nature photonics, 2012 - nature.com
Dissipative solitons are localized formations of an electromagnetic field that are balanced
through an energy exchange with the environment in presence of nonlinearity, dispersion …

Breather molecular complexes in a passively mode‐locked fiber laser

J Peng, Z Zhao, S Boscolo, C Finot… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Breathing solitons are nonlinear waves in which the energy concentrates in a localized and
oscillatory fashion. Similarly to stationary solitons, breathers in dissipative systems can form …

Nanosized indium selenide saturable absorber for multiple solitons operation in Er3+-doped fiber laser

W Fan, Y Han, S Chen, S Sun, X Zhao, C Bai… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
With the advances in the field of ultrafast photonics occurring so fast, the demand for optical
modulation devices with high performance and soliton lasers which can realize the evolution …