Grating-free Raman laser using highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber
S. Randoux,
N. Y. Joly,
G. Mélin,
A. Fleureau,
L. Galkovsky,
S. Lempereur,
P. Suret
Optics Express
15
16035-16043
(2007)
| Journal
| PDF
We demonstrate a Raman laser made from a grating-free highly-nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. The laser threshold power is lower than 600 mW and laser power characteristics recorded in experiments are accurately described from the usual simplest model dealing only with stationary evolutions of total optical powers [J. Opt. Soc. Am. 69, 803–807 (1979)]. In our theoretical treatment, reflectivity coefficients are fixed parameters, in strong contrast with procedures usually implemented to describe Raman fiber lasers made with fiber Bragg gratings. Experimental investigations of the spectral properties of our grating-free Raman fiber laser evidence that the shape of the Stokes power spectrum remains remarkably Gaussian whatever the incident pump power. Increasing the incident pump power induces a drift of the Stokes wavelength together with a broadening of the Stokes optical spectrum. Investigations on the role of light polarization on laser characteristics show that our grating-free Raman fiber laser behaves as a Raman laser made with a standard polarization maintaining fiber.
Bound soliton pairs in photonic crystal fiber
A. Podlipensky,
P. Szarniak,
N. Y. Joly,
C. G. Poulton,
P. St. J. Russell
We demonstrate experimentally the formation and stable propagation of bound soliton pairs in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. The bound pairs occur at a particular power as the consequence of high-order soliton fission. They propagate over long distances with constant inter-soliton frequency and time separation. During propagation, the soliton self-frequency shift causes the central frequency of the pairs to move towards longer wavelength. The formation and characteristics of the bound soliton pairs are confirmed numerically. We believe this to be the first experimental observation of such bound soliton pairs. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America.
Kontakt
Forschungsgruppe Nicolas Joly
Professur für Photonik Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
und
Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts Staudtstr. 2 91058 Erlangen, Germany
