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Published on: November 22, 2019
Third-order dispersion and bound states of pulses in a fiber laser
Michel Olivier1, Vincent Roy, Michel Piché
1Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Laser (COPL), Département de Physique, Université Laval, Québec, Quebec GIK 7P4, Canada. michel.olivier4@sympatico.ca
Abstract:
The effect of third-order dispersion on bound states of pulses in the anomalous-dispersion fiber ring laser is analyzed experimentally and numerically. The bound states are formed by an interaction through dispersive waves. Due to third-order dispersion, the resonant sideband spectrum is asymmetric. The most intense sideband drives the interaction in these bound states and fixes their separation to a discrete set of values.

