Double-wall carbon nanotube hybrid mode-locker in Tm-doped fibre laser:a novel mechanism for robust bound-state solitons generation

Abstract

The complex nonlinear dynamics of mode-locked fibre lasers, including a broad variety of dissipative structures and self-organization effects, have drawn significant research interest. Around the 2 μm band, conventional saturable absorbers (SAs) possess small modulation depth and slow relaxation time and, therefore, are incapable of ensuring complex inter-pulse dynamics and bound-state soliton generation. We present observation of multi-soliton complex generation in mode-locked thulium (Tm)-doped fibre laser, using double-wall carbon nanotubes (DWNT-SA) and nonlinear polarisation evolution (NPE). The rigid structure of DWNTs ensures high modulation depth (64%), fast relaxation (1.25 ps) and high thermal damage threshold. This enables formation of 560-fs soliton pulses; two-soliton bound-state with 560 fs pulse duration and 1.37 ps separation; and singlet+doublet soliton structures with 1.8 ps duration and 6 ps separation. Numerical simulations based on the vectorial nonlinear Schr¨odinger equation demonstrate a transition from single-pulse to two-soliton bound-states generation. The results imply that DWNTs are an excellent SA for the formation of steady single- and multi-soliton structures around 2 μm region, which could not be supported by single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). The combination of the potential bandwidth resource around 2 μm with the soliton molecule concept for encoding two bits of data per clock period opens exciting opportunities for data-carrying capacity enhancement.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep44314
Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.17036/researchdata.aston.ac.uk.00000207
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
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Publication ISSN: 2045-2322
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 08:20
Date Deposited: 13 Mar 2017 13:55
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Published Date: 2017-03-13
Accepted Date: 2017-02-02
Submitted Date: 2016-11-07
Authors: Chernysheva, Maria
Bednyakova, Anastasia
Al Araimi, Mohammed
Howe, Richard C.T.
Hu, Guohua
Hasan, Tawfique
Gambetta, Alessio
Galzerano, Gianluca
Ruemmeli, Mark
Rozhin, Aleksey (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-2271-8227)

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