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Passively harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber soliton laser with a nonlinear polarization rotation

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Based on the nonlinear polarization rotation technique, we report on a stable passive 23rd harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber soliton laser for the first time to the best of our knowledge. In this laser, 23 solitons are uniformly distributed in the cavity simultaneously, and all solitons have the same energy and duration. The increase of the coupler output enhances the dispersive radiation, and the longer cavity strengthens the interaction between solitons and dispersive waves. The two above factors play the key function to generate the 23rd harmonic mode-locked operation.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, 710119, China

    X. M. Liu, T. Wang, L. R. Wang, A. Lin, K. Q. Lu, T. Y. Zhang & W. Zhao

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering and Center for Advanced Research in Photonics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T, Hong Kong, China

    C. Shu

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Liu, X.M., Wang, T., Shu, C. et al. Passively harmonic mode-locked erbium-doped fiber soliton laser with a nonlinear polarization rotation. Laser Phys. 18, 1357–1361 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X08110285

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