Discriminating the existence regions and dynamics between quartic self-similar pulse and dissipative pure quartic soliton in ultrashort fiber laser

Recently, both quartic self-similar pulses (QSSPs) and dissipative pure-quartic-solitons (DPQSs) pulses have been theoretically demonstrated in mode-locked fiber laser with pure positive fourth-order dispersion (FOD). Here, we investigate the existence regions and dynamics of those two soliton pulses by numerically solving the cubicquintic Ginzburg-Landau equation. We find the positive FOD fiber laser tends to emit QSSPs in the presence of high nonlinear gain, while it is apt to generate DPQS pulses in the case of low nonlinear gain. An unstable pulse region separates the QSSP region from the DPQS region. The characteristics of QSSP and DPQS pulses are dependent on the nonlinear gain and FOD. The QSSP can carry more energy than that of DPQS pulse, because the DPQS pulse with large energy could be unstable due to the excessive pulse pedestal. Our results are not only useful for understanding the dynamics of the DPQS pulse and QSSP in the cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation with pure FOD, but also provide a guideline for generating high-energy pulses from the positive FOD fiber laser.

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This study investigates the existence regions and dynamics of quartic self-similar pulses (QSSPs) and dissipative pure-quartic-solitons (DPQSs) in a mode-locked fiber laser with pure positive fourth-order dispersion (FOD). It is found that the laser tends to emit QSSPs with high nonlinear gain and generate DPQS pulses with low nonlinear gain. The energy carried by QSSP is higher than that of DPQS pulse due to the instability caused by excessive pulse pedestal.