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Soliton Dynamics in Mode-Locked Lasers

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Dissipative Solitons

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Mode-locked lasers generate ultra-short optical pulses, with durations ranging from hundreds of picoseconds (ps) down to a few femtoseconds (fs). The pulse circulating in the cavity of a mode-locked laser can be thought of as a dissipative soliton, where the dissipation is due to the inevitable presence of loss, which must be compensated by gain. In addition to gain and loss, the pulse experiences nonlinearity and dispersion, the key ingredients for any soliton system. These effects occur in physical elements that do not completely fill the cavity, thus there is a similarity to the dispersion management that is used in telecommunications systems.

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Cundiff, S. Soliton Dynamics in Mode-Locked Lasers. In: Akhmediev, N., Ankiewicz, A. (eds) Dissipative Solitons. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 661. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10928028_8

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