Abstract
The evolution of soliton pulses into noise-like pulses in a nonlinear fiber externally to the laser oscillator is demonstrated at 1.9 µm, for the first time. Soliton collapse based mechanisms induce noise-like pulses with varying properties as a function of nonlinear fiber length without requiring any laser cavity feedback. The proposed method allows the generation of noise-like pulses with a sub-300 fs spike and sub-40 ps pedestal duration. Power scaling of the noise-like pulses is demonstrated in a double-clad thulium-doped fiber amplifier with amplification up to an average power of 5.19 W, corresponding to a pulse energy of 244 nJ. This method provides an alternative route for generating fully synchronized noise-like pulses and solitons in the same system, without relying on the conventionally used mechanism of changing the intracavity nonlinearity within the laser cavity.
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