Coexistence of a self-induced transparency soliton and a higher order nonlinear Schrödinger soliton in an erbium doped fiber

Excited-state absorption as a source of

Excited-state absorption as a source of nonlinear thermo-induced lensing and self-Q-switching in an all-fiber Erbium laser

✍ A. V. Kir'yanov; N. N. Il'ichev; Yu. O. Barmenkov 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 276 KB

A modeling of an all-fiber self-Q-switched Erbium laser is developed, implying that the mechanism of self-Q-switching is the power-dependent thermo-induced lensing in Erbium fiber that stems from the excited-state absorption at the laser wavelength.