We introduce a new approach to reservoir computing (RC) in which single nonlinear device – semiconductor optical amplifier, replaces the entire nonlinear reservoir to perform computations. To study the performance of the proposed scheme, we use it for the benchmark prediction task of learning the Mackey-Glass chaotic attractor. Mildly chaotic attractor with tau = 17 and wilder chaotic behavior with tau = 30 are considered.
Over the last decade, the ultrafast short-wave infrared (SWIR: 1600 – 2500 nm) laser market has been promisingly growing with Thulium-doped fibre systems as key players. An advantageous low-loss atmospheric transmission, a deep biological tissue penetration as well as various absorption lines of gases and biomolecules drive the demand on efficient light sources operating at this wavelength band. To unleash the full potential for expanding applications the laser system has to present highly integrated, cost-effective, rugged, compact turn-key solutions. Broadband wavelength tuneability can ensure a one more level of versatility for laser systems and extend areas of their applications. Principle limitations of achieving wide tuning wavelength ranges are generally defined by the spectral bandwidth of the gain and traditional tuneability techniques, typically relying on implementation of bulk and expensive tuning elements. In this presentation, we will present nearly 90 nm tuneability in ultrafast Tm-doped fibre laser spanning from 1873 to 1962 nm by implementing variable feedback for efficient control of the excitation level of the active medium. To realise self-mode-locking we explore a heavily-doped active fibre enriched with Tm ion clusters to reinforce its saturable absorption mechanism with 23% modulation depth and 95 MW/cm2 saturation intensity. We observed both experimentally and numerically intriguing implications on the saturation level, gain, and glass matrix. The highest laser efficiency is observed with 20% feedback, generating 580-fs soliton pulses at 1877 nm central wavelength with 1.5 nJ output pulse energy. Numerical model combining the nonlinear Shrödinger and population inversion rate equations for the gain medium helps to unveil nonlinear pulse evolution under the influence of dynamically varying gain spectrum. The resulting laser system presents a compact and straightforward approach to achieve laser generation with a broad wavelength tuneability, high laser stability, and power performance, which can be translated to unexplored so far wavelength ranges.
Today, perspectives of using the picosecond and femtosecond pulses for biological tissue analysis are limited with several problems. One of them is an absence of direct sources of radiation in water transparency windows, e.g. 1.3 and 1.7 microns. There are several techniques that can produce that kind of radiation. In order to generate it we used synchronous pump and stimulated Raman scattering in a phosphosilicate fiber inside an external cavity. Our work presents the experimental and numerical modeling results for 1.3 micron Raman dissipative soliton generation in an all-fiber system. Additionally, attempts of pulse synchronous amplification are reported.
We experimentally demonstrate a cascaded generation of a conventional dissipative soliton (DS) at 1020 nm and Raman dissipative solitons (RDS) of the first (1065 nm) and second (1115 nm) orders inside a common fiber laser cavity. The generated high-energy pulses are shown to be linearly-chirped and compressible to 200-300 fs durations for all wavelengths. Moreover, the pulses are mutually coherent that has been confirmed by efficient coherent combining exhibiting ~75 fs and <40 fs interference fringes within the combined pulse envelope of a DS with the first-order RDS and the second-order RDS respectively. The numerical simulation was performed with sinusoidal (soft) and step-like (hard) spectral filters and took into account the discreetness of the laser elements. Shown that even higher degree of coherence and shorter pulses could be achieved with hard spectral filtering. This approach opens the door towards cascaded generation of multiple coherent dissipative solitons in a broad spectral range (so-called dissipative soliton comb). The demonstrated source of coherent dissipative solitons can improve numerous areas such as frequency comb generation, pulse synthesis, biomedical imaging and the generation of coherent mid-infrared supercontinuum.
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