Title :
Widely tunable compact Er3+-doped fiber ring laser
Author :
Ju, Y.L. ; Xu, Y. ; Zhong, F.F. ; Zhang, Y.J.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Key Lab. of Tunable Laser Technol., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
fDate :
July 28 2010-Aug. 1 2010
Abstract :
A widely tunable compact erbium-doped all fiber ring laser with 104nm turning range was reported. A fiber Fabry-Perot filter (FFP-TF) was used to be the tuning element to realize turning range from 1513nm to 1617nm with the linewidth less than 40 pm at any wavelength. The fiber laser worked with slope efficiency of above 10% and threshold of less than 21mW. This fiber laser can be used to realize wavelength interrogation with a relatively high speed and high resolution.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical fibre filters; ring lasers; spectral line breadth; JkJk:Er3+; fiber Fabry-Perot filter; laser tuning; slope efficiency; spectral linewidth; wavelength 1513 nm to 1617 nm; widely tunable compact erbium-doped fiber ring laser; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Fabry-Perot filter; all fiber laser; erbium-doped; widely tunable;
Conference_Titel :
Laser Physics and Laser Technologies (RCSLPLT) and 2010 Academic Symposium on Optoelectronics Technology (ASOT), 2010 10th Russian-Chinese Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Harbin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5511-9
DOI :
10.1109/RCSLPLT.2010.5615389
