Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 41, Issue 4, 0436001(2021)

Development of 500 kHz High-Speed Swept Source

Longzhao Lu1,2, Dapeng Zhang2, Yuwei Xu2, Jiannan Lu2, Xiansheng Sun2, Xinglong Wang2, and Kevin Hsu2、*
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  • 1School of Precision Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Advanced Fiber Resources (Zhuhai), Ltd., Zhuhai, Guangdong 519080, China
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    Based on a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and a high-speed fiber Fabry-Perot filter, we built a short ring cavity for producing high-speed swept laser. During the filter sweeping from the long wavelength to the short wavelength, if the bias current of the SOA was switched off, we could acquire a swept laser with a duty cycle of 50%. With the help of an interleaver, the swept laser with a duty cycle of 100% could be obtained. Furthermore, after a second SOA was applied, the output power of the swept laser was further improved. Finally, it was experimentally demonstrated that the swept laser featured a swept frequency of 500 kHz, a center wavelength of 1550 nm, a sweep range of 67 nm, an effective coherence length of 6.5 mm, and an average output power of greater than 20 mW.

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    Longzhao Lu, Dapeng Zhang, Yuwei Xu, Jiannan Lu, Xiansheng Sun, Xinglong Wang, Kevin Hsu. Development of 500 kHz High-Speed Swept Source[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2021, 41(4): 0436001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Letters

    Received: Sep. 25, 2020

    Accepted: Nov. 11, 2020

    Published Online: Feb. 26, 2021

    The Author Email: Hsu Kevin (kevinhsu@fiber-resources.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202141.0436001

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