Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue 5, 325(2015)
Switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with tunable wavelength
A switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) with tunable wavelength is demonstrated. The ring cavity consists of two branches with a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and a spherical-shape structure as fiber filters, respectively. By adjusting the variable optical attenuator (VOA), the laser can be switched between the single- wavelength mode and the dual-wavelength mode. The spherical-shape structure has good sensitivity to the temperature. When the temperature changes from 30 °C to 190 °C, the central wavelength of the EDFL generated by the branch of spherical-shape structure varies from 1 551.6 nm to 1 561.8 nm, which means that the wavelength interval is tunable.
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TONG Zheng-rong, LIU Meng-ying, CAO Ye, ZHANG Wei-hua, HAO Xia. Switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with tunable wavelength[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2015, 11(5): 325
Received: Jun. 16, 2015
Accepted: --
Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017
The Author Email: Zheng-rong TONG (tjtongzhengrong@163.com)