Pure-quartic soliton self-frequency shift in a mode-locked fiber laser

Song Yang, Zhiwei Zhu, Chaojian He, Yaoyao Qi and Xuechun Lin

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024, vol. 188, issue C

Abstract: The pure-quartic soliton (PQS) offers the advantage of a wide spectrum and approximately Gaussian temporal profile, which has the potential to obtain high-energy ultrafast laser pulses. Thus, exploring the role of stimulated Raman scattering in the formation and propagation of PQSs in fiber lasers is crucial, especially considering the greater propensity for highpower and short PQS pulses compared to traditional solitons. Here, we present the modeling of a self-frequency shift (SFS) fiber laser based on the PQS, emphasizing the impact of fourth-order dispersion and the Raman effect. The significant red-shift in wavelength is discovered as the pump energy increases, revealing that the emergence of SFS is a universal attractor in mode-locked PQS fiber laser systems. Our simulations demonstrate that such wavelength tunability is a direct byproduct of the gain bandwidth limit and the stimulated Raman scattering for PQSs inside the fiber cavity, while the evolution dynamics in the gain and passive fiber show obvious differences. However, we find that the effect of SFS in a PQS fiber laser is compromised by a trade-off with the degradation of pulse quality, such as reshaping the oscillating tail and destroying the symmetry of the emission pulse. This Raman-induced nonlinear process under high pump energy facilitates the discovery of the comprehensive complexity of science for PQSs suffering from higher-dimensional forms of nonlinear effects in fiber lasers.

Keywords: Fiber laser; Mode-locking; Pure-quartic soliton (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2024.115515

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