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OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 152, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2022.108116
Keywords
Dark soliton; Fiber laser; Nonlinear effect; Mode-locking
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- Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province [2018B090904002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61875043]
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This review discusses the generation and propagation mechanisms of dark solitons in fiber lasers, and summarizes the recent progress in this field. Dark solitons have wide applications in areas such as optics communication, optics sensing, and nonlinear optics.
Dark solitons feature local dips on a modulationally stable continuous-wave background. Compared with bright solitons, the dark solitons in fiber lasers are more stable in noise circumstances and not much susceptible to loss. Thus, dark solitons have been widely applied in optics communication, optics sensing, and nonlinear optics fields. Although the mechanism of generation of dark solitons in fiber lasers has been numerically studied in the last almost five decades, the experimental observation of dark solitons from a fiber laser system just started since 2009, and it has attracted much attention. This review mainly describes the generation and propagation of nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE) dark soliton in fiber lasers from both experimental and simulation perspectives, and then summarizes a detailed recent progress of the NLSE dark soliton, domain-wall dark soliton, and cubic-quintic nonlinear Schroddinger equation (CQNLSE) dark soliton. At the end of this review, the practical applications and perspectives of dark soliton fiber laser are also provided.
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