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Polarization rotation locking of vector solitons in a fiber ring laser
1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Abstract:
Polarization rotation of vector solitons in a fiber ring laser was experimentally studied. It was observed that the period of vector soliton polarization rotation could be locked to the cavity roundtrip time or multiple of it. We further show that multiple vector solitons can be formed in a fiber laser, and all the vector solitons have the same group velocity in cavity, however, their instantaneous polarization ellipse orientations could be orthogonal.
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