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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2021, Volume 22, Issue 3 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.2000372

Generation of noise-like pulses and soliton rains in a graphene mode-locked erbium-doped fiber ring laser

Affiliation(s): Hunan Key Laboratory for Micro-Nano Energy Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Optoelectronics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China; School of Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing 211171, China; less

Received: 2020-07-24 Accepted: 2021-03-08 Available online: 2021-03-08

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Abstract

We demonstrate the generation of noise-like pulses (NLPs) and soliton rains in a saturable absorber mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser. Typical NLPs are obtained at a proper pump power and in a cavity polarization state. The soliton rain operation with multiple solitons can be achieved by finely adjusting the cavity polarization state. In addition, distinctive multi-soliton interactions are observed and investigated, including the fundamental mode-locking and multiple pulses. The experimental results can help further understand nonlinear pulse dynamics in ultrafast optics.

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