Title :
Intracavity-diode-pumped erbium doped fibre laser
Author :
Abraham, Dona ; Nagar, Reetika ; Ruberto, M.N. ; Eisenstein, Gadi ; Zyskind, J.L. ; DiGiovanni, David ; Koren, U. ; Raybon, G.
Author_Institution :
Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
A compact and integrable diode-pumped, linear configuration fibre laser is presented. An intracavity diode serves as a pump source at 0.98 mu m as well as a Fabry-Perot etalon at 1.53 mu m. The threshold pump power of this compound cavity laser is 6 mW and the slope efficiency is 3.2%.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; integrated optics; laser cavity resonators; laser transitions; optical pumping; optical waveguides; semiconductor junction lasers; 0.98 micron; 1.53 micron; 3.2 percent; 6 mW; Er doped optical fibre; Fabry-Perot etalon; compact integrable design; compound cavity laser; fibre laser; intracavity diode; linear configuration; pump source; slope efficiency; threshold pump power;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19921167
