Saturable absorption in multi-core fiber couplers
Optics
2015-06-05 v1
Abstract
The saturable absorption characteristics of two-, three-, and five-core one-dimensional fiber coupler arrays and the seven-core hexagonal fiber coupler array are investigated. It is shown that the performance of all these saturable absorbers are comparable and not much is gained, if anything, by going from a two-core nonlinear coupler geometry to a higher number of cores. This observation is supported by the similarity of the saturable absorption curves, as well as comparable pulse characteristics obtained from the simulation of a generic mode-locked fiber laser cavity.
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@article{arxiv.1307.7338,
title = {Saturable absorption in multi-core fiber couplers},
author = {Elham Nazemosadat and Arash Mafi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.7338},
year = {2015}
}