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High peak-to-background-ratio solitons in a coherently-driven active fiber cavity

Optics 2023-06-14 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate that the peak-to-background ratio of driven solitons can be greatly improved by harnessing the cavity detuning. We use a driven fiber laser pumped below the lasing threshold to increase the finesse and excite solitons in a very wide region of detunings. When driving a 50 m long fiber cavity close to the anti-resonance condition, we excite sub-800 fs solitons with a peak-to-background ratio over 30000. The experimental results are in good agreement with simple theoretical models describing the soliton peak power and the background power.

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@article{arxiv.2207.00582,
  title  = {High peak-to-background-ratio solitons in a coherently-driven active fiber cavity},
  author = {Nicolas Englebert and Carlos Mas Arabí and Simon-Pierre Gorza and François Leo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.00582},
  year   = {2023}
}