Photonic Sensors, Volume. 4, Issue 3, 265(2014)

Characteristics Research on Self-Amplified Distributed Feedback Fiber Laser

Zhiqiang SONG1、*, Haifeng QI1, Jian GUO1, Chang WANG1, and and Gangding PENG2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shandong Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing Technologies, Laser Institute of Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan, 250014, China
  • 2School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052
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    A distributed feedback (DFB) fiber laser with a ratio of the backward to forward output power of 1:100 was composed by a 45-mm-length asymmetrical phase-shifted fiber grating fabricated on the 50-mm erbium-doped photosensitive fiber. Forward output laser was amplified using a certain length of Nufern EDFL-980-Hp erbium-doped fiber to absorb the surplus pump power after the active phase-shifted fiber grating and get population inversion. By using OptiSystem software, the best fiber length of the EDFL to get the highest gain was simulated. In order to keep the amplified laser with the narrow line-width and low noise, a narrow-band light filter consisting of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) with the same Bragg wavelength as the laser and an optical circulator was used to filter the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise of the out-cavity erbium-doped fiber. The designed laser structure sufficiently utilized the pump power, and a DFB fiber laser with the 32.5-mW output power, 11.5-kHz line width, and -87-dB/Hz relative intensity noise (RIN) at 300 mW of 980 nm pump power was brought out.

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    Zhiqiang SONG, Haifeng QI, Jian GUO, Chang WANG, and Gangding PENG. Characteristics Research on Self-Amplified Distributed Feedback Fiber Laser[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2014, 4(3): 265

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    Paper Information

    Received: Dec. 13, 2013

    Accepted: Jan. 5, 2014

    Published Online: Jul. 10, 2014

    The Author Email: SONG Zhiqiang (zhiqiangs@gmail.com)

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