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All-fiber ring soliton laser mode locked with a nonlinear mirror
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An amplifying nonlinear-optical fiber loop mirror is used as the gain element in an all-fiber ring laser, and the resulting double-loop structure resembles a figure eight.Abstract:
An amplifying nonlinear-optical fiber loop mirror is used as the gain element in an all-fiber ring laser. The resulting double-loop structure resembles a figure eight. The output of the amplifying nonlinear-optical fiber loop mirror is fed back to the input through an optical isolator to ensure unidirectional operation. The laser produces 2-ps transform-limited pulses. The pulse energy corresponds to that of the fundamental soliton in the fiber used.read more
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Nonlinear-optical loop mirror
Nick Doran,David Wood +1 more
TL;DR: A nonlinear device based on the nonlinear propagation in a waveguide loop formed by connecting the output ports of a conventional coupler is proposed and has the ability to operate on entire pulses when soliton effects are included.
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The soliton laser.
L. F. Mollenauer,Roger H. Stolen +1 more
TL;DR: The soliton laser as discussed by the authors is a mode-locked laser using pulse compression and solitons in a single-mode fiber to force the laser itself to produce pulses of a well-defined shape and width.
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Nonlinear amplifying loop mirror.
TL;DR: A novel device arrangement for all-optical switching that permits efficient exploitation of waveguide nonlinearities is discussed, based on a long optical fiber loop mirror with an integral short asymmetrically located optical amplifier.
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The Soliton Laser
L. F. Mollenauer,Roger H. Stolen +1 more
TL;DR: By incorporating a length of single-mode, polarization-preserving fiber into the feedback loop of a mode-locked color-center laser (lambda~1.4-1.6 microm), a device that is called the soliton laser is created.
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Experimental demonstration of optical soliton switching in an all-fiber nonlinear Sagnac interferometer
TL;DR: This work demonstrates the potential of solitons as the natural bits in ultrafast optical processing by observing switching of 93% of the total reflected energy in a partially transmitting integrated fiber loop mirror that makes up the interferometer.