Real-time characterization of optical soliton molecule dynamics in an ultrafast thulium fiber laser

Opt Lett. 2018 Oct 15;43(20):4965-4968. doi: 10.1364/OL.43.004965.

Abstract

We present an experimental characterization of the internal oscillations, vibrations, and transients of optical soliton molecules generated in a passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser. We use custom linearly chirped Bragg grating filters to perform real-time spectral measurement of the ultrafast dynamics at wavelengths around 2 μm.