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The continuous-wave output of a single-mode erbium-doped fibre ring laser when subjected to cavity-loss modulation is found to exhibit linear as well as nonlinear resonances. At sufficiently low driving amplitude, the system resembles a linear damped oscillator. At higher amplitudes, the dynamical study of these resonances shows that the behaviour of the system exhibits features of a nonlinear damped oscillator under harmonic modulation. These nonlinear dynamical features, including harmonic and subharmonic resonances, have been studied experimentally and analysed with the help of a simple time-domain and frequency-domain information obtained from the output of the laser. All the studies are restricted to the modulation frequency lying in a regime near the relaxation oscillation frequency.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge Dr B K Goswami from the Laser and Plasma Technology Division of BARC, Mumbai for several discussions during the initial course of this work, Prof. S Dhar from the Department of Physics, IIT, Bombay for the continuous instrumentation support for the experiments and the Department of Information Technology, Government of India, for the sponsored funding of some of the experimental facilities used in this work.
This work was performed by AG as a part of her Ph.D. thesis at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
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GHOSH, A., VIJAYA, R. Linear and nonlinear resonance features of an erbium-doped fibre ring laser under cavity-loss modulation. Pramana - J Phys 83, 147–159 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-014-0770-1
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