Group velocity locked vector dissipative solitons in a high repetition rate fiber laser

Yiyang Luo, Lei Li, Deming Liu, Qizhen Sun, Zhichao Wu, Zhilin Xu, Dingyuan Tang, Songnian Fu, Luming Zhao
2016 Optics Express  
Vectorial nature of dissipative solitons (DSs) with high repetition rates is studied for the first time in a normal-dispersion fiber laser. Despite the fact that the formed DSs are strongly chirped and the repetition rate is greater than 100 MHz, polarization locked and polarization rotating group velocity locked vector DSs can be formed under 129.3 MHz fundamental mode-locking and 258.6 MHz harmonic mode-locking of the fiber laser, respectively. The two orthogonally polarized components of
more » ... e vector DSs possess distinctly different central wavelengths and travel together at the same group velocity in the laser cavity, resulting in a gradual spectral edge and small steps on the optical spectra, which can be considered as an auxiliary indicator of the group velocity locked vector DSs.
doi:10.1364/oe.24.018718 pmid:27505834 fatcat:5nmrajnbubbmlgstwvqjp4a77u