Pulse-shaping mechanisms in passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber lasers.

Different pulse-shaping mechanisms were investigated experimentally and numerically in passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber lasers. Conventional solitons were demonstrated in a passively semiconductor saturable absorber mirror mode-locked anomalous dispersion thulium-doped fiber laser. With normal dispersion fiber and spectral filter added in cavity, pulse-shaping processes were theoretically analyzed in the presence of dispersion map and dissipation in thulium-doped fiber lasers. The existence of parabolic pulse as nonlinear attraction was proved and distinct pulse intensity profiles evolution from Gaussian shape to parabolic shape was proposed in dissipative dispersion-managed thulium-doped fiber lasers.

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