Mode-locking pulse dynamics in a fiber laser with a saturable Bragg reflector
- Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Advanced Technology Center for Photonics and Opto-Electronic Materials, Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)
- Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 101 Crawfords Corner Road, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 (United States)
A theoretical model is developed for the pulse dynamics in a fiber laser mode locked by a saturable Bragg reflector and operating in regimes beyond the scope of the master mode-locking equation. An asymptotically valid mode-locked evolution equation is derived, which includes a heuristic model for the saturable Bragg reflector dynamics. The model employed allows, for the first time to our knowledge, direct comparison (with no free parameters) of the theoretical predictions of the pulse spectral and temporal profiles with experimental results in both the normal and anomalous dispersion regimes. Extensive numerical simulations of the governing evolution equation, an averaged equation, and analytical solutions are found to be in excellent agreement with experimental results. {copyright} 1997 Optical Society of America
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-95ER25238
- OSTI ID:
- 632542
- Journal Information:
- Journal of the Optical Society of America, Part B: Optical Physics, Vol. 14, Issue 10; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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