PMID- 38041298 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20231202 IS - 1094-4087 (Electronic) IS - 1094-4087 (Linking) VI - 31 IP - 24 DP - 2023 Nov 20 TI - Soliton rain in all-polarization-maintaining mode locked fiber laser. PG - 39841-39851 LID - 10.1364/OE.504376 [doi] AB - For the first time the phenomenon of soliton rain is observed in a mode-locked fiber laser with all-polarization-maintaining (all-PM) architecture. The laser is mode-locked using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) and operates in the all-normal dispersion (ANDi) regime. The operation state of the laser can be switched from dissipative soliton to soliton rain by simply raising the pump power, without any manipulation of the intracavity polarization state given that all components of the resonator are made of PM fibers. The soliton rain generated in the laser is self-starting and replicable, since it occurs in every individual operation of the laser as the pump power is increased to an approximately invariant value. FAU - Guo, Chunyu AU - Guo C FAU - Li, Keyi AU - Li K FAU - Wang, Zhenhao AU - Wang Z FAU - Li, Zhuobiao AU - Li Z FAU - Zhang, Xiao AU - Zhang X FAU - Wang, Jiachen AU - Wang J FAU - Jiang, Shoulin AU - Jiang S FAU - Jin, Wei AU - Jin W FAU - Ruan, Shuangchen AU - Ruan S LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Opt Express JT - Optics express JID - 101137103 SB - IM EDAT- 2023/12/02 06:41 MHDA- 2023/12/02 06:42 CRDT- 2023/12/02 01:02 PHST- 2023/12/02 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/12/02 06:41 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/12/02 01:02 [entrez] AID - 542316 [pii] AID - 10.1364/OE.504376 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Opt Express. 2023 Nov 20;31(24):39841-39851. doi: 10.1364/OE.504376.