An improved erbium-doped fiber laser configuration for achieving single-polarization, switchable dual-wavelength of orthogonal polarizations oscillations at room temperature is proposed. For the first time, two fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) directly written in a polarization-maintaining (PM) and photosensitive erbium-doped fiber (PMPEDF) as the wavelength-selective component are used in a linear laser cavity. Due to the polarization hole burning (PHB) enhanced by the polarization-maintaining FBG (PMFBG), the laser can be designed to operate in stable dual-wavelength or wavelength-switching modes with a wavelength spacing of 0.336 nm at room temperature by adjusting a polarization controller (PC). Each lasing line shows a single polarization with a polarization extinction ratio of >25 dB under different pump levels. The optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) is greater than 50 dB. The amplitude variation with 16 times scans in nearly one and half an hour is less than 0.5 dB at both operating wavelength.

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An optimal refractive index profile of pure silica core optical fiber (PSCF) was designed, in combination with the characters of the modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) process. Techniques of preform fabrication by a new furnace round heating MCVD process and fiber drawing process were reviewed. Difficulties in doping fluorine in silica, widening the depressed-index cladding and maintaining the index of fiber core were discussed. Methods used to overcome these difficulties were given at the same time. Additionally, the optimal refractive index profiles of PSCF were presented.