Soliton mode locking by nonlinear Faraday rotation
- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- Vol. 13 (11) , 2420-2423
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josab.13.002420
Abstract
We propose nonlinear Faraday rotation as a mechanism for achieving stable polarization mode locking of a soliton laser. We analyze by perturbation theory and beam-propagation simulations the interplay between bandwidth-limited gain, gain dichroism, and linear and nonlinear Faraday rotation.Keywords
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