Coherent dissipative soliton intermittency in ultrafast fiber lasers

As a universal phenomenon in nonlinear optical systems, intermittency is usually accompanied by the coherence loss such as soliton explosions in fiber lasers. Based on real-time spectroscopy, we revealed the coherent dissipative soliton intermittency in normal-dispersion fiber lasers. By increasing the pump strength, the intermittency transforms from the transient pulsation to the bi-stable soliton. It is demonstrated that the slow-gain effect dominates such coherent intermittency. Our results provide novel insights into laser physics, offering a promising approach for studying the bi-stable dissipative soliton.