Erbium-doped fiber ring lasers step-tunable to exact multiples of 100 GHz (ITU-grid) using periodic filters

Author

Bellemare, Antoine ; Lemieux, Jean-Franqois ; Têtu, Michel ; LaRochelle, Sophie

Author_Institution

Centre d´´Opt., Photonique et Laser, Laval Univ., Que., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

153

Abstract

Step-tunable erbium-doped fiber lasers using either sampled Bragg gratings (SBG) or Fabry-Perot micro etalons (FPME) are presented. The lasers are widely tunable and in precise concordance with the ITU-grid. Two different types of 100 GHz step-tunable Er-doped fibre ring laser (EDFRL) based on periodic filters have been realized. The first one is based on a SBG and is tunable from 192.0 to 193.5 THz. The second one is based on a FPME and is tunable from 191.0 to 196.9 THz

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Fabry-Perot interferometers; erbium; fibre lasers; laser tuning; micro-optics; optical fibre filters; ring lasers; 100 GHz; 191 to 196.9 THz; 192 to 193.5 THz; Fabry-Perot micro etalons; erbium-doped fiber ring lasers; periodic filters; precise concordance; sampled Bragg gratings; step-tunable Er-doped fibre ring laser; step-tunable erbium-doped fiber lasers; step-tunable lasers; Band pass filters; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot; Frequency; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical reflection; Ring lasers; Semiconductor laser arrays; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732479

Filename

732479