The nonlinear dynamics of an erbium-doped fiber laser is explained based on a simple model of the ion pairs present in heavily doped fibers. The single-mode laser dynamics is reductible to four coupled nonlinear differential equations. Depending on the ion-pair concentration, the pumping level and the photon lifetime in the laser cavity, numerical calculations predict cw, self-pulsing and sinusoidal dynamics. The regions of these dynamics in the space of the laser parameters are determined. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
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Sterian, A., & Ninulescu, V. (2005). Nonlinear phenomena in erbium-doped lasers. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 3482, pp. 643–650). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424857_71
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