Title :
Low beat-noise, highly polarized tunable fiber ring laser
Author :
Liu, H.L. ; Tam, H.Y. ; Chung, W.H. ; Wai, P.K.A. ; Sugimoto, N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Information Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Kowloon, China
Abstract :
A low beat-noise polarized tunable fiber ring laser is reported. The laser utilized a FP-LD to achieve 34-nm tunable range in 1.12-nm steps and 99% degree of polarization. The beat-noise was reduced dramatically by 50 dB with the FP-LD.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; laser noise; laser tuning; light polarisation; ring lasers; FP-LD; beat noise; fiber ring laser; laser tuning; light polarization; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fiber testing; Optical filters; Ring lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215596
