Generation of highly-chirped dissipative solitons in Er-doped all-fiber oscillator

Abstract

The all-fiber highly-chirped dissipative soliton (HCDS) oscillator was realised at 1.5 μm wavelength. A normal net cavity dispersion was achieved by using a conventional dispersion compensating fiber (DCF). To separate effects of the amplitude self-modulation and dissipative soliton formation, we exploit in the laser cavity both standard single mode fiber and polarization maintaining single mode fiber. The properties of the generated pulses have been varied by changing spectral filter bandwidth and DCF lengths. After compression of the nJ-level ∼6ps HCDS in the external fiber compressor, we measured the output pulse duration of 165 fs (an estimated chirp parameter 40).