Deterministic chaos in an ytterbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser
Optics
2018-05-18 v1 Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
We experimentally study the nonlinear dynamics of a femtosecond ytterbium doped mode-locked fiber laser. With the laser operating in the pulsed regime a route to chaos is presented, starting from stable mode-locking, period two, period four, chaos and period three regimes. Return maps and bifurcation diagrams were extracted from time series for each regime. The analysis of the time series with the laser operating in the quasi mode-locked regime presents deterministic chaos described by an unidimensional Rossler map. A positive Lyapunov exponent confirms the deterministic chaos of the system. We suggest an explanation about the observed map by relating gain saturation and intra-cavity loss.
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@article{arxiv.1805.06491,
title = {Deterministic chaos in an ytterbium-doped mode-locked fiber laser},
author = {Lucas B. A. Mélo and Guillermo F. R. Palacios and Pedro V. Carelli and Lúcio H. Acioli and José R. Rios Leite and Marcio H. G. de Miranda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06491},
year = {2018}
}