Transition between optical turbulence and dissipative solitons in a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with quasi-cw noise

Abstract

Noise-induced phase transition between chaos and ordered states plays an important role in the self-organization of dissipative structures. Here, we numerically simulate the phase transitions between statistically stationary regimes in a laser cavity by using a stochastic complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation with a phase-diffusion model. Depending on the linear and nonlinear gains, the dissipative system converges from the initial noise floor to different regimes, including continuous wave, phase turbulence, amplitude turbulence (AT), and stable soliton structure. Around the regime boundaries, we found that only certain phase noise can cause the instability of phase turbulence. The defects formed due to the noise will continue to spread out and self-organize to form AT or stabilize the soliton structure in the defect area. Our results are helpful in understanding the dynamics of the buildup of mode locking and noiselike pulses in passively mode-locked lasers.