TY - JOUR
T1 - Multicolour nonlinearly bound chirped dissipative solitons
AU - Babin, Sergey A.
AU - Podivilov, Evgeniy V.
AU - Kharenko, Denis S.
AU - Bednyakova, Anastasia ENovosibirsk State University
AU - Fedoruk, Mikhail P.
AU - Kalashnikov, Vladimir L
AU - Apolonski, Alexander
PY - 2014/8/13
Y1 - 2014/8/13
N2 - The dissipative soliton regime is one of the most advanced ways to generate high-energy femtosecond pulses in mode-locked lasers. On the other hand, the stimulated Raman scattering in a fibre laser may convert the excess energy out of the coherent dissipative soliton to a noisy Raman pulse, thus limiting its energy. Here we demonstrate that intracavity feedback provided by re-injection of a Raman pulse into the laser cavity leads to formation of a coherent Raman dissipative soliton. Together, a dissipative soliton and a Raman dissipative soliton (of the first and second orders) form a two (three)-colour stable complex with higher total energy and broader spectrum than those of the dissipative soliton alone. Numerous applications can benefit from this approach, including frequency comb spectroscopy, transmission lines, seeding femtosecond parametric amplifiers, enhancement cavities and multiphoton fluorescence microscopy.
AB - The dissipative soliton regime is one of the most advanced ways to generate high-energy femtosecond pulses in mode-locked lasers. On the other hand, the stimulated Raman scattering in a fibre laser may convert the excess energy out of the coherent dissipative soliton to a noisy Raman pulse, thus limiting its energy. Here we demonstrate that intracavity feedback provided by re-injection of a Raman pulse into the laser cavity leads to formation of a coherent Raman dissipative soliton. Together, a dissipative soliton and a Raman dissipative soliton (of the first and second orders) form a two (three)-colour stable complex with higher total energy and broader spectrum than those of the dissipative soliton alone. Numerous applications can benefit from this approach, including frequency comb spectroscopy, transmission lines, seeding femtosecond parametric amplifiers, enhancement cavities and multiphoton fluorescence microscopy.
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms5653
U2 - 10.1038/ncomms5653
DO - 10.1038/ncomms5653
M3 - Article
C2 - 25116003
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 5
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
M1 - 4653
ER -