Ultrafast fiber laser has been widely used for spreading the extensive industrial applications and exploring the optics nonlinear dynamics. Here, we report a bidirectional fiber laser passively mode-locked by nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) technique, supporting the emission of multi-state solitons. For the first time to the best of our knowledge, a Φ-shape auxiliary cavity based on chirped fiber Bragg grating (CFBG) is proposed to simultaneously introduce large anomalous and normal dispersion into the lasing oscillator. As a result, different dispersion distributions are achieved intra-cavity, respectively corresponding to counter propagating directions. Thus, conventional soliton (CS) and dissipative soliton (DS) are respectively generated in clockwise and counter-clockwise propagating directions. The results could benefit multifunctional ultrafast fiber laser system, which is potentially set for many practical applications as well as the study of soliton dynamics.

Date Published: 14 February 2019
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 11048, 17th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN2018), 110483E (14 February 2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2518282

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 11048:
17th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN2018)
Zhaohui Li, Editor(s)