[en] We report on suppression of supermode noise in harmonically mode-locked fiber laser achieved through the injection of continuous wave (CW) into the laser cavity. Implementing this method, we have shown experimentally that supermode suppression level of harmonically mode-locked laser could be increased by 20-30 dB depending on the pulse energy of the mode-locked laser. Experiments have refined the requirements to the positions inside the laser spectrum assigned to the injected CW component, a Kelly soliton sideband, and the transparency peaks of the birefringent filter formed in the ring fiber cavity. The effect takes places at proximity of the injected CW to the Kelly sideband leading to phase-locking between the CW and the solitons.
Disciplines :
Electrical & electronics engineering Physics
Author, co-author :
Korobko, Dmitry A.; Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation
Itrin, Pavel A.; Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation
Ribenek, Valeria A.; Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation
Stoliarov, Dmitry A.; Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation
Fotiadi, Andrei ; Université de Mons - UMONS ; Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation ; Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Language :
English
Title :
Supermode noise suppression in harmonically mode-locked fiber laser by continuous wave injection
Publication date :
25 May 2022
Event name :
Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications III
Event date :
09-05-2022 => 20-05-2022
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications III
Editor :
Ferrari, Maurizio
Publisher :
SPIE
ISBN/EAN :
978-1-5106-5160-9
Peer reviewed :
Editorial reviewed
Research unit :
F108 - Electromagnétisme et Télécommunications
Research institute :
R400 - Institut de Recherche en Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux
Funders :
City of Strasbourg CNRS iCube IdEx University of Strasbourg The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Universite de Strasbourg
Funding text :
This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (19-72-10037) and the Russian Ministry of Higher Education and Science (project 075-15-2021-581). P.A.I. is partially supported by the RFBR (20-32-90171).
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