Dissipative solitons for mode-locked lasers

By Philippe Grelu, Nail Akhmediev. Nature Photonics, 2012

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Dissipative solitons are localized formations of an electromagnetic field that are balanced through an energy exchange with the environment in presence of nonlinearity, dispersion and/or diffraction. Their growing use in the area of passively mode-locked lasers is remarkable: the concept of a dissipative soliton provides an excellent framework for understanding complex pulse dynamics and stimulates innovative cavity designs. Reciprocally, the field of mode-locked lasers serves as an ideal playground for testing the concept of dissipative solitons and revealing their unusual dynamics. This Review provides basic definitions of dissipative solitons, summarizes their implications for the design of high-energy mode-locked fibre laser cavities, highlights striking emerging dynamics such as dissipative soliton molecules, pulsations, explosions and rain, and finally provides an outlook for dissipative light bullets. This Review explains the concept of dissipative solitons and their application to high-energy mode-locked fibre laser cavities. Dynamics and effects such as dissipative soliton ‘explosions’ and ‘rain’ are summarized, and an outlook of the field is also provided.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources (2017, methodology): “Specifically, we are interested in the multiple pulse, or harmonically mode-locked régimes, which have largely been explored in fibre-loop lasers in order to increase their repetition-rates [209].”
The formation of various multi-soliton patterns and noise-like pulse in a fiber laser passively mode-locked by a topological insulator based saturable absorber (2014, background): “Through carefully controlling the laser operation parameters, such as the polarization state, pump power and cavity design, one could obtain various multi-soliton patterns, including bunched solitons [2], bound solitons [3, 4], soliton rains [5, 6], as a result of the mutual interactions among solit”
Roadmap on optical rogue waves and extreme events (2016, background): “Starting from single pulse mode-locked laser operation, complex dynamics can appear through bifurcations, which can lead to pulsating and chaotic dynamics [135].”
Passively Q-Switched and Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Based on an ReS2 Saturable Absorber (2018, background): “dynamic evolution of soliton [3], saturable absorption of nanomaterials, etc [8]–[10].”