Continuously Tunable Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Based on Tilted Fiber Grating

Lilong Dai; Chuanhang Zou; Qianqian Huang; Zinan Huang; Yuanda Ling; Zhikun Xing; Zhijun Yan; Chengbo Mou

doi:10.3788/CJL201946.0508026

Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 46, Issue 5, 0508026(2019)

Continuously Tunable Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Based on Tilted Fiber Grating

Lilong Dai¹, Chuanhang Zou¹, Qianqian Huang¹, Zinan Huang¹, Yuanda Ling¹, Zhikun Xing², Zhijun Yan², and Chengbo Mou^1、*

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¹Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Joint International Research Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Advanced Communication, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

²National Engineering Laboratory for Next Generation Internet Access System, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China

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Paper Information

Category: nonlinear optics

Received: Dec. 12, 2018

Accepted: Feb. 15, 2019

Published Online: Nov. 11, 2019

The Author Email: Mou Chengbo (mouc1@shu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/CJL201946.0508026

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