Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 2, 122(2019)

A switchable dual-wavelength fiber laser based onphase-shifted fiber Bragg grating combined with Sagnac loop

Xiao-li ZHAO1... Fei LUO1, Yu-min ZHANG1, Fan-yong MENG1, and Ming-li DONG12,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Beijing Engineering Research Center of Optoelectronic Information and Instruments, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing 100016, China
  • 2Beijing Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Measurement Technology, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing 100192, China
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    A switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser is proposed and demonstrated. The interference filter is achieved by employing a phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (PSFBG) combined with Sagnac loop structure. By adjust-ing polarization controller (PC) states, the birefringence effect is introduced to weaken mode competition, then stable and switchable dual-wavelength fiber laser can be realized. Based on coupled-mode theory and transmission matrix, the Sagnac loop transmission characteristics are studied. The experimental results show that the proposed fiber laser can operate in switchable dual-wavelength output mode at room temperature just by simply adjusting PC. The output wavelength range of fiber laser is 1 556.128—1 556.384 nm, the side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) is over 45 dB, and dual-wavelength spacing as small as 0.048 nm is achieved, which can be used in high-fineness dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems and similar structures.

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    ZHAO Xiao-li, LUO Fei, ZHANG Yu-min, MENG Fan-yong, DONG Ming-li. A switchable dual-wavelength fiber laser based onphase-shifted fiber Bragg grating combined with Sagnac loop[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2019, 15(2): 122

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jul. 28, 2018

    Accepted: Sep. 21, 2018

    Published Online: Apr. 16, 2019

    The Author Email: Ming-li DONG (dongml@sina.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-019-8126-1

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