Quartic soliton solutions of a normal-dispersion-based mode-locked laser

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2025

Authors

Facao, M (Author) Other; Malheiro, D (Author) Other; Maria Inês Barbosa de Carvalho (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Physical Review A

Vol. 111

ISSN: 2469-9926

Publisher: American Physical Society

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Authenticus ID: P-018-V3G

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.111.053503

Abstract (EN): We studied the characteristics, regions of existence, and stability of different types of solitons for a distributed model of a mode-locked laser whose dispersion is purely quartic and normal. Among the different types of solitons, we identified three main branches that are named according to their different amplitude: low, medium, and high amplitude solitons. It was found that the first solitons are always unstable while the latter two exist and are stable in relatively large regions of the parameter space. Moreover, the stability regions of medium and high amplitude solitons overlap over a certain range of parameters, manifesting effects of bistability. The energy of high amplitude solitons increases quadratically with their width, whereas the energy of medium amplitude solitons may decrease or increase with the width depending on the parameter region. Furthermore, we have investigated the long term evolution of the continuous-wave solutions under modulational instability, showing that medium amplitude solitons can arise in this scenario. Additionally, we assessed the effects of second- and third-order dispersion on medium and high amplitude solitons and found that both remain stable in the presence of these terms.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 14