70-nm tunable single-longitudinal-mode erbium-doped fiber laser

H Chen; Francois Babin; M Leblanc; Gang He; Gregory W. Schinn

doi:10.1117/12.474406

17 February 2003 70-nm tunable single-longitudinal mode erbium-doped fiber laser

H Chen, Francois Babin, M Leblanc, Gang He, Gregory W. Schinn

Proceedings Volume 4833, Applications of Photonic Technology 5; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474406
Event: Applications of Photonic Technology 5, 2002, Quebec City, Canada

Abstract

This paper presents experimental results on a 70-nm-wide, quasi-continuously tunable, single-longitudinal-mode erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser. The cavity incorporates three tunable band-pass filters; a bulk grating based tunable band-pass filter, a fiber-ring-cavity filter, and an auto-tracking saturable absorption induced grating filter generated by an un-pumped EDF. In our experiment, this laser produced a single longitudinal mode oscillation between 1510 nm and 1580 nm, an output power of 0.5 mW and a tuning step of less than 0.2 pm. Optical frequency jitter was less than 0.8 pm and the signal to source spontaneous emission ratio (S/SSE) was higher than 60 dB. A tunable single-longitudinal-mode L-band fiber laser will also be discussed in this paper.

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H Chen, Francois Babin, M Leblanc, Gang He, and Gregory W. Schinn "70-nm tunable single-longitudinal mode erbium-doped fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 4833, Applications of Photonic Technology 5, (17 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474406

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