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Dynamics of an inhomogeneously broadened passively mode-locked laser
We study theoretically the effect of inhomogeneous broadening of the
gain and absorption lines on the dynamics of a passively mode-locked laser.
We demonstrate numerically using travelling wave equations the formation of a
Lamb-dip instability and suppression of Q-switching in a laser with large
inhomogeneous broadening. We derive simplified delay-differential equation
model for a mode-locked laser with inhomogeneously broadened gain and
absorption lines and perform numerical bifurcation analysis of this model
Dynamics of an inhomogeneously broadened passively mode-locked laser
We study theoretically the effect of inhomogeneous broadening of the gain and absorption lines on the dynamics of a passively mode-locked laser. We demonstrate numerically using travelling wave equations the formation of a Lamb-dip instability and suppression of Q-switching in a laser with large inhomogeneous broadening. We derive simplified delay-differential equation model for a mode-locked laser with inhomogeneously broadened gain and absorption lines and perform numerical bifurcation analysis of this model
Temporal solitons in an optically injected Kerr cavity with two spectral filters
We investigate theoretically the dynamical behavior of an optically injected Kerr cavity where the chromatic dispersion is induced by propagation of light through two Lorentzian spectral filters with different widths and central frequencies. We show that this setup can be modeled by a second order delay differential equation that can be considered as a generalization of the Ikeda map with included spectral filtering, dispersion, and coherent injection terms. We demonstrate that this equation can exhibit modulational instability and bright localized structures formation in the anomalous dispersion regime
Temporal dissipative solitons in a delayed model of a ring semiconductor laser
Temporal cavity solitons are short pulses observed in periodic time traces of the electric field envelope in active and passive optical cavities. They sit on a stable background so that their trajectory comes close to a stable CW solution between the pulses. A common approach to predict a nd study these solitons theoretically is based on the use of Ginzburg-Landau-type partial differential equations, which, however, cannot adequately describe the dynamics of many realistic laser systems. Here for the first time we demonstrate formation of temporal cavity soliton solutions in a time-delay model of a ring semiconductor cavity with coherent optical injection, operating in anomalous dispersion regime, and perform bifurcation analysis of these solutions
Bifurcations in a model of monolithic passively mode-locked semiconductor laser
Bifurcation mechanisms of the development and break up of different operation regimes in a passively mode-locked monolithic semiconductor laser are studied by solving numerically partial differential equations for amplitudes of two counterpropagating waves and carrier densities in gain and absorber sections. It is shown that harmonic mode-locking regime with two pulses in the cavity can exhibit a period-doubling bifurcation leading to different amplitudes and separations of the pulses. The effect of linewidth enhancement factors in gain and absorber sections on the laser dynamics is discussed
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Temporal dissipative solitons in a delayed model of a ring semiconductor laser
Temporal cavity solitons are short pulses observed in periodic time
traces of the electric field envelope in active and passive optical cavities.
They sit on a stable background so that their trajectory comes close to a
stable CW solution between the pulses. A common approach to predict and study
these solitons theoretically is based on the use of Ginzburg-Landau-type
partial differential equations, which, however, cannot adequately describe
the dynamics of many realistic laser systems. Here for the first time we
demonstrate formation of temporal cavity soliton solutions in a time-delay
model of a ring semiconductor cavity with coherent optical injection,
operating in anomalous dispersion regime, and perform bifurcation analysis of
these solutions
Effect of chromatic dispersion on multimode laser dynamics: Delay differential model
A set of differential equations with distributed delay is derived for modeling of multimode ring lasers with intracavity chromatic dispersion. Analytical stability analysis of continuous wave regimes is performed and it is demonstrated that sufficiently strong anomalous dispersion can destabilize these regimes
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Temporal cavity solitons in a delayed model of a dispersive cavity ring laser
Nonlinear localised structures appear as solitary states in systems with multistability and hysteresis. In particular, localised structures of light known as temporal cavity solitons were observed recently experimentally in driven Kerr-cavities operating in the anomalous dispersion regime when one of the two bistable spatially homogeneous steady states exhibits a modulational instability. We use a distributed delay system to study theoretically the formation of temporal cavity solitons in an optically injected ring semiconductor-based fiber laser, and propose an approach to derive reduced delay-differential equation models taking into account the dispersion of the intracavity fiber delay line. Using these equations we perform the stability and bifurcation analysis of injection-locked CW states and temporal cavity solitons
Bifurcations in a model of monolithic passively mode-locked semiconductor laser
Operation regimes of a two section monolithic quantum dot mode-locked laser are studied theoretically using a model that takes into account carrier exchange between quantum dots and wetting layer. It is shown that when the absorber section length is large enough the laser exhibits bistability between laser off state and different mode-locking regimes. Q-switching instability leading to slow modulation of the mode-locked pulse peak intensity is completely eliminated in this case
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