Distributed Kerr-Lens Mode-Locking Based on Spatiotemporal Dissipative Solitons in Multimode Fiber Lasers
Abstract
We introduce a mechanism of stable spatiotemporal soliton formation in a multimode fiber laser. This is based on spatially graded dissipation, leading to distributed Kerr-lens mode-locking. Our analysis involves solutions of a generalized dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii equation. This equation has a broad range of applications in nonlinear physics, including nonlinear optics, spatiotemporal patterns formation, plasma dynamics, and Bose-Einstein condensates. We demonstrate that careful control of dissipative and non-dissipative physical mechanisms results in the self-emergence of stable (2+1)-dimensional dissipative solitons. Achieving such a regime does not require the presence of any additional dissipative nonlinearities, such a mode-locker in a laser, or inelastic scattering in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Our method allows for stable energy (or "mass") harvesting by coherent localized structures, such as ultrashort laser pulses or Bose-Einstein condensates.
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@article{arxiv.2004.00990,
title = {Distributed Kerr-Lens Mode-Locking Based on Spatiotemporal Dissipative Solitons in Multimode Fiber Lasers},
author = {Vladimir L. Kalashnikov and Stefan Wabnitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00990},
year = {2020}
}
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14 pages, 11 figures