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Published on: February 28, 2016
Observation of Optical Chaotic Solitons and Modulated Subharmonic Route to Chaos in Mode-Locked Laser
Huiyu Kang1, Anran Zhou1, Ying Zhang1
1East China Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, and Hainan Institute, Shanghai, China.
Abstract:
We reveal a new scenario for the transition of solitons to chaos in a mode-locked fiber laser: the modulated subharmonic route. Its universality is confirmed in two different laser configurations, namely, a figure-of-eight and a ring laser. Numerical simulations of the laser models agree well with the experiments. The modulated subharmonic route to chaos could stimulate parallel research in many nonlinear physical systems.

