Four wave mixing of conventional and Raman dissipative solitons from single fiber laser.

Abstract

Conventional (1015 nm) and Raman (1055 nm) dissipative solitons generated in an all-fiber Yb laser are mixed in an external photonic crystal fiber (PCF) at pulse energy of up to 4 nJ at the input. It has been found that red-shifted ~20 ps pulses with energy up to 1 nJ are generated in the parametric process. Their peak wavelength is tunable from 1084 to 1102 nm by means of the delay variation between the input pulses. At that, the parametric pulses are shown to be coherent with the input ones and compressible to ~2 ps that is useful in applications. The performed modeling explains the main features of generated pulses.