Switchable and tunable Erbium-doped fiber ring laser incorporating a birefringent and highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

Chen, Daru; Shen, Lu

doi:10.1002/lapl.200610118

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“…This was performed by adjusting the micrometer driver scale forward or backward in the range of 0 to 350 μm. Compared with previous works to generate dual wavelengths, by incorporating the microfiber [11], photonic crystal fiber [18,19], HNLF [20], and multimode fiber (MMF) [21], it was difficult to generate a dual wavelength at the same central wavelength when the setup was repeated by adjusting the PC in a similar condition. Furthermore, this setup is inexpensive, simple, and produces a more stable output.…”

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Tunable dual-wavelength ytterbium-doped fiber laser using a strain technique on microfiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer

et al. 2016

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In this paper, stable dual-wavelength generation using a strain technique for a ytterbium-doped fiber laser is successfully demonstrated. A microfiber-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer is inserted into the laser ring cavity and stretched using the xyz translation stage. Four sets of dual-wavelength output lasing are obtained when the strain is applied onto a microfiber. The dual-wavelength output possesses spacing between 7.12 and 11.59 nm, with displacement from 2 to 190 μm from the central wavelength. The obtained side-mode suppression ratio is ∼48 dBm, while the maximum power fluctuation and wavelength shift are less than 0.6 dB and 0.01 nm, respectively. The results demonstrate that this setup generates a stable dual-wavelength laser in the 1 μm region.

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Tunable dual-wavelength ytterbium-doped fiber laser using a strain technique on microfiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer

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“…According to the past studies [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] either used optical filter (fiber Bragg grating, fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter, and birefringence fiber loop mirror et al, or adjusted nonlinear effect in the ring cavity to achieve the singlefrequency operation. Comparing with these papers, our proposed fiber laser not only hasn't any optical filter in the cavity (only uses passive fiber), but also retrieves the stabilities of output power and wavelength.…”

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Using ring-filter and saturable-absorber-based filter for stable erbium fiber laser

et al. 2007

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A stable single-frequency dual-coupler ring (DCR) laser is proposed that operates in a single mode for more than an hour by an incorporating unpumped erbium-doped fiber (EDF) as a saturable-absorber filter and optimizing the length of the EDF used as gain medium. The proposed fiber laser doesn't use any fiber Bragg gratings or etalon filters into intracavity to lase a single-frequency. This laser has an optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) of > 60 dB at 1562.9 nm. In addition, the stabilities of the output power and wavelength have also been studied.

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“…Several approaches have been demonstrated to build such widely tunable erbium doped fiber laser, such as linear cavity laser [1], ring cavity laser [1,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] and lots of hybrid cavity fiber lasers [2]. According to the previous studies [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], either using ring cavity, linear cavity, and any other hybrid cavity fiber lasers or using other rare earth doped fiber and semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) as gain media to achieve widely tunable range, so far, the broadest tuning range reported for a standard C-band erbium-doped fiber based ring laser was 112.2 nm by A. Bellemare et al [9]. The laser transition between 4 I 13/2 -4 I 15/2 multiplets of the silica-based erbium-doped fiber is known to emit fluorescence with the shortest wavelength around 1450 nm [16].…”

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Continuously tunable S and C+L bands ultra wideband erbium-doped fiber ring laser

Wang

2009

Laser Phys. Lett.

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This paper presents an ultra wideband tunable silicabased erbium doped fiber ring laser (EDFRL) that can be continuously tuned in S and C+L bands from 1475 to 1619 nm. It is the first time that a fiber ring laser's tuning range reaches 144 nm using a standard silica-based C-band erbium-doped fiber as gain media. In the laser configuration two isolators are used in the fiber loop for suppressing the ASE in C-band and elevating the lasing gain in S-band. As a result the available lasing wavelength is extended toward the shorter wavelength of the gain bandwidth. The optimized erbium-doped fiber length, output coupling ratio and pumping laser power have been obtained through experimental study. This ring fiber laser has simple configuration, low threshold, flat laser spectral distribution and high signal-to-ASE-noise ratio. The laser will have many potential applications in fiber sensor wavelength interrogation, high-resolution spectroscopy and fiber optic communications.

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Switchable and tunable Erbium-doped fiber ring laser incorporating a birefringent and highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

Cited by 32 publications

References 17 publications

Tunable dual-wavelength ytterbium-doped fiber laser using a strain technique on microfiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Tunable dual-wavelength ytterbium-doped fiber laser using a strain technique on microfiber Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Using ring-filter and saturable-absorber-based filter for stable erbium fiber laser

Continuously tunable S and C+L bands ultra wideband erbium-doped fiber ring laser

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