Dissipative soliton resonances and their applications

The concept of the dissipative soliton has received wide recognition in physics, biology and medicine. One novel phenomenon found by the author of this proposal is dissipative soliton resonance, which can lead to an optical pulse having extremely high energies. This effect can find immediate application in the design of record high-energy femtosecond pulse generating laser systems. Until recently, the generation of ultra-short high-energy optical pulses required an aggregate of expensive optical amplifiers at the output of a mode-locked oscillator. This proposal is aimed at investigating possible ways of increasing the pulse energy emerging from a single optical oscillator, based on the idea of dissipative soliton resonance.