SLM fiber laser stabilized at high temperature

In this letter, an annealing process of UV-written fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) has been employed to achieve FBGs with narrower reflection spectra to be employed in fiber lasers. These FBGs have been used to design distributed Bragg relfector (DBR) laser sensors working on the single longitudinal mod...

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Autores: Rodríguez Cobo, Luis|||0000-0002-2068-2956, López Higuera, José Miguel|||0000-0002-8615-8487
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/35248
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/35248
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fiber lasers
Erbium
Single longitudinal mode
Fiber Bragg grating
High temperature
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Sumario:In this letter, an annealing process of UV-written fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) has been employed to achieve FBGs with narrower reflection spectra to be employed in fiber lasers. These FBGs have been used to design distributed Bragg relfector (DBR) laser sensors working on the single longitudinal mode (SLM) regime even at high temperatures. A fiber laser sensor working on multimode regime has been written into commercial Er-doped fiber before annealing its mirror FBGs, removing the unstable UV-induced modulation part and narrowing the FBGs' combined response. This process obtains a DBR fiber laser sensor working on SLM regime at high temperatures (T = 500°C), and also exhibiting a remarkably good linearity and stability. The achieved results confirm the empirically adjusted aging model and prove its usefulness to design high precision devices able to work at high temperatures.