Self-Induced Faraday Instability Laser

Year: 2018

Authors: Perego AM., Smirnov SV., Stallunas K., Churkin DV., Wabnitz S.

Autors Affiliation: Aston Univ, Aston Inst Photon Technol, Aston Express Way, Birmingham B4 7ET, W Midlands, England; Novosibirsk State Univ, 1 Pirogova Str, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Univ Politecn Cataluna, Dept Fis & Engn Nucl, E-08222 Barcelona, Spain; Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats, Passeig Lluis Co 23, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain; Univ Brescia, Dipartimento Ingn Informaz, Via Branze 38, I-25123 Brescia, Italy; CNR, Ist Nazl Ott, Via Branze 38, I-25123 Brescia, Italy.

Abstract: We predict the onset of self-induced parametric or Faraday instabilities in a laser, spontaneously caused by the presence of pump depletion, which leads to a periodic gain landscape for light propagating in the cavity. As a result of the instability, continuous wave oscillation becomes unstable even in the normal dispersion regime of the cavity, and a periodic train of pulses with ultrahigh repetition rate is generated. Application to the case of Raman fiber lasers is described, in good quantitative agreement between our conceptual analysis and numerical modeling.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 120 (21)      Pages from: 213902-1  to: 213902-6

More Information: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 691051. Authors acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, and the European Union FEDER through Project No. FIS2015-65998-C2-1-P. The work of S.W., S.V.S., and D.V.C. is supported by Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Minobrnauka) (14.Y26.31.0017). A.M.P. acknowledges support from the ICONE Project through Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant No. 608099.
KeyWords: Fiber lasers; Pulse repetition rate, Conceptual analysis; Continuous Wave; Faraday instability; Normal dispersion; Periodic trains; Quantitative agreement; Raman fiber lasers; Ultrahigh repetition rates, Pumping (laser); Ginzburg-Landau equation; Side-band instability; Fiber ring cavities; Modulattional-instability; Normal-dispersion
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.213902

Citations: 8
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