ABSTRACT

Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers ........................................................... 207 6.3 Deterministic Dynamics of Solitons in Fiber Lasers ............................ 210

6.3.1 Experimental Con€guration ........................................................ 210 6.3.2 Soliton Deterministic Dynamics ................................................. 212 6.3.3 Period-Doubling Bifurcation and Period-Doubling Route

to Chaos of Single-Pulse Solitons ................................................ 213 6.3.4 Period Doubling and Quadrupling of Bound Solitons ............ 217 6.3.5 Period Doubling of Multiple Solitons ......................................... 221 6.3.6 Period Doubling of Dispersion-Managed Solitons at

around Zero Cavity Dispersion ................................................... 224 6.3.7 Period Doubling of Gain-Guided Solitons in Fiber Lasers

with Large Net Normal Dispersion ............................................225 6.3.8 Period Doubling of Vector Solitons in a Fiber Laser .................228