Tunable Dual-Wavelength Fiber Laser Based on a Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Bragg Grating and a Hi-Bi Fiber Optical Loop Mirror¹

We demonstrate experimentally the operation of a linear cavity dual-wavelength fiber laser using a polarization maintaining fiber Bragg grating (PM-FBG) as an end mirror that defines two closely spaced laser emission lines. The PM-FBG is also used to tune the laser wavelengths. The total tuning rang...

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Autores: EVGENY KUZIN, Baldemar Ibarra Escamilla
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:México
Institución:Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional del INAOE
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1009/1641
Acceso en línea:http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1641
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Tunable dual-wavelength
info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Fiber Bragg grating
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/22
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/2209
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Sumario:We demonstrate experimentally the operation of a linear cavity dual-wavelength fiber laser using a polarization maintaining fiber Bragg grating (PM-FBG) as an end mirror that defines two closely spaced laser emission lines. The PM-FBG is also used to tune the laser wavelengths. The total tuning range is ~8 nm. The laser operates in a stable dual-wavelength mode for an appropriate adjustment of the cavity losses for the generated wavelengths. The high birefringence (Hi-Bi) fiber optical loop mirror (FOLM) is used as a tunable spectral filter to adjust the losses. The FOLM adjustment was performed by the temperature control of the Hi-Bi fiber.