Polarization attractors driven by vector soliton rain

Sergey V. Sergeyev; Mahmoud Eliwa; Hani Kbashi

doi:10.1364/OE.462491

Polarization attractors driven by vector soliton rain

Sergey V. Sergeyev, Mahmoud Eliwa, Hani Kbashi

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Soliton rain is a bunch of small soliton pulses slowly drifting near the main pulse having the period of a round trip. For Er-doped fiber laser mode-locked by carbon nanotubes, for the first time, we demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically a new type of polarization attractors controllable by vector soliton rain. With adjusting the pump power, vector soliton rain takes the form of pulses with rotating states of polarization which enable transforming slowly evolving trajectories on the Poincaré sphere from the double-scroll spiral to the circle. The obtained results on controlling complex multisoliton dynamics can be of interest in laser physics and engineering with potential applications in spectroscopy, metrology, and biomedical diagnostics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	35663-35670
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	30
Issue number	20
Early online date	15 Sept 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.462491
Publication status	Published - 26 Sept 2022

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Funding: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EID MOCCA (814147), ETN MEFISTA (861152)); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/W002868/1).

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