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تسجيل مستخدم جديدBound states of gain-guided solitons in a passively mode-locked fiber laser
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We report on the observation of bound states of gain-guided solitons (GGSs) in a dispersion-managed erbium-doped fiber laser operating in the normal net cavity dispersion regime. Despite of the fact that the GGS is a chirped soliton and there is strong pulse stretching and compression along the cavity in the laser, the bound solitons observed have a fixed pulse separation, which is invariant to the pump strength change. Numerical simulation confirmed the experimental observations.
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Alexey Andrianov
, Arkady Kim (Institute of Applied Physics of then Russian Academy of Sciences
, Nizhny Novgorod
2019
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