Mode-locking via dissipative Faraday instability

Nikita Tarasov; Auro M. Perego; Dmitry V. Churkin; Kestutis Staliunas; Sergei K. Turitsyn

doi:10.1038/ncomms12441

Mode-locking via dissipative Faraday instability

Nikita Tarasov^*, Auro M. Perego, Dmitry V. Churkin, Kestutis Staliunas, Sergei K. Turitsyn

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Emergence of coherent structures and patterns at the nonlinear stage of modulation instability of a uniform state is an inherent feature of many biological, physical and engineering systems. There are several well-studied classical modulation instabilities, such as Benjamin-Feir, Turing and Faraday instability, which play a critical role in the self-organization of energy and matter in non-equilibrium physical, chemical and biological systems. Here we experimentally demonstrate the dissipative Faraday instability induced by spatially periodic zig-zag modulation of a dissipative parameter of the system - spectrally dependent losses - achieving generation of temporal patterns and high-harmonic mode-locking in a fibre laser. We demonstrate features of this instability that distinguish it from both the Benjamin-Feir and the purely dispersive Faraday instability. Our results open the possibilities for new designs of mode-locked lasers and can be extended to other fields of physics and engineering.

Original language	English
Article number	12441
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12441
Publication status	Published - 9 Aug 2016

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