Summary: Polarization-locked temporal vector solitons
in a fiber laser: experiment
B. C. Collings*
Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
and Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733
S. T. Cundiff
JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440
N. N. Akhmediev
Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, Optical Sciences Centre, The Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
J. M. Soto-Crespo
Instituto de O´ ptica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain
K. Bergman
Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
W. H. Knox
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733
Received May 3, 1999; revised manuscript received October 18, 1999
We experimentally observe polarization-locked vector solitons in a passively mode-locked fiber laser. The vec-
tor soliton pulse is composed of components along both principal polarization axes of the linearly birefringent
laser cavity. For certain values of birefringence and pulse energy these components propagate with a con-

Source: Akhmediev, Nail - Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University
Bergman, Keren - Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Collections: Engineering; Physics