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 …

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 …

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 soliton resonances

W Chang, A Ankiewicz, JM Soto-Crespo… - Physical Review A …, 2008 - APS
We have found a dissipative soliton resonance which applies to nonlinear dynamical
systems governed by the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation. Specifically, for …

Build‐Up of dissipative optical soliton molecules via diverse soliton interactions

J Peng, H Zeng - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Solitons can form bound states that are frequently referred to as soliton molecules as they
exhibit molecule‐like dynamics. The build‐up phase of the optical soliton molecule remains …

Formation of optical supramolecular structures in a fibre laser by tailoring long-range soliton interactions

W He, M Pang, DH Yeh, J Huang, CR Menyuk… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Self-assembly of fundamental elements through weak, long-range interactions plays a
central role in both supramolecular DNA assembly and bottom-up synthesis of …

Soliton rains in a fiber laser: An experimental study

S Chouli, P Grelu - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2010 - APS
Rains of solitons constitute a class of nonlinear dynamics of dissipative soliton ensembles
that we briefly reported in Opt. Express 17, 11776 (2009) OPEXFF 1094-4087 10.1364/OE …

Universal mechanism for the binding of temporal cavity solitons

Y Wang, F Leo, J Fatome, M Erkintalo, SG Murdoch… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Temporal cavity solitons (CSs) are pulses of light that can persist in coherently driven
passive resonators, such as fiber ring resonators and monolithic Kerr microresonators. While …

Bidirectional soliton rain dynamics induced by casimir-like interactions in a graphene mode-locked fiber laser

K Sulimany, O Lib, G Masri, A Klein, M Fridman… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We study experimentally and theoretically the interactions among ultrashort optical pulses in
the soliton rain multiple-pulse dynamics of a fiber laser. The laser is mode locked by a …

Rains of solitons in a fiber laser

S Chouli, P Grelu - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report a novel and intriguing nonlinear dynamics observed in a fiber laser cavity, in
which soliton pulses are created from an extended noisy background and drift until they …