Narrow-bandwidth picosecond dissipative soliton resonance in an all-anomalous-dispersion Er/Yb co-doped fiber laser

Abstract

First, it is numerically demonstrated that narrow-bandwidth picosecond dissipative soliton resonance (DSR) pulses can be obtained in the all-anomalous-dispersion Er/Yb co-doped fiber (EYDF) laser, which is based on the nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) mode-locking and narrow-band spectral filtering. The generated DSR pulses are characterized by a central peak on top of a rectangular pedestal temporally and two high-intensity spectral sidebands with less than 0.6-nm bandwidth. Second, the impacts of several key cavity parameters on characteristics of DSR pulses are investigated. Particularly, a new phenomenon of periodic evolution of the DSR pulse, featuring alternated high and low peak powers with the round-trips, is discovered by tuning filter bandwidth or net-cavity dispersion. Multi-pulse dissipative soliton (DS) and noise-like pulse (NLP) are also observed in the fiber laser. Finally, a 22.3-ps DSR pulse with 287.5-W peak power can be further compressed to 4.3 ps with 1126.5-W peak power by the dispersion compensation. This work further enriches the DSR pulse dynamics in the anomalous-dispersion region and paves a way to realize narrow-bandwidth picosecond DSR pulse fiber lasers.