Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 10, Issue 6, 434(2014)

A switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber lasebased on saturable absorber and active optical fiber ring filter

Lian-qing ZHU1,*... Qing-shan CHEN1, Ran-ran ZHAO1, Xiao-ping LOU1, and Wei HE12 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Beijing Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Measurement Technology, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Optoelectronic Information and Instrument, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing 100192, China
  • 2School of Instrument Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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    A dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) with outstanding stability is presented. In the fiber laser system, two nested active optical fiber ring filters are configured to improve the comb spectrum performance, a saturable absorber is employed to form a gain grating for both filtering and frequency stabilizing, two cascaded fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are utilized to achieve dual-wavelength output, and a variable attenuator is arranged to adjust output power. Experimental results illustrate that the peak wavelength drift is less than 3 pm, and a good linear relationship between output power and pump power is realized.

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    ZHU Lian-qing, CHEN Qing-shan, ZHAO Ran-ran, LOU Xiao-ping, HE Wei. A switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber lasebased on saturable absorber and active optical fiber ring filter[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2014, 10(6): 434

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    Paper Information

    Received: Sep. 19, 2014

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017

    The Author Email: Lian-qing ZHU (zhulianqing@sina.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-014-4166-8

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