Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 15, 1514001(2025)

2 μm Ring Cavity Thulium-Doped Fiber Laser Directly Pumped by 793 nm Laser Diode with Wide Tunable Wavelength and Narrow Linewidth

Jianwei Wang1,2,3,4, Hui Shen2,3,4、*, Junjie Ren2,3,4, Zhenxing He2,3,4, Yunfeng Qi2,3,4、**, Bo Dai1, and Xisheng Ye1,2,3,4
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2Wang Zhijiang Laser Innovation Center, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 3Shanghai Key Laboratory of All Solid-State Laser and Applied Techniques, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 4Aerospace Laser Technology and System Department, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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    This study realizes a fiber laser based on a ring cavity, directly pumped by a 793 nm laser diode (LD) and operating in the 2 μm waveband with tunable wavelength and narrow linewidth. A tunable fiberized Fabry-Perot (F-P) filter is inserted into the ring cavity to obtain wide wavelength tuning. By using an unpumped polarization-maintaining thulium-doped fiber as a saturable absorber, a dynamic narrowband grating is generated in the cavity to achieve narrow linewidth laser output. After optimizing the lengths of gain fiber and saturable absorber fiber, the obtained output power of the laser reaches up to 70 mW and the wavelength tuning range is as high as 98 nm, and the tuning range is 1950-2048 nm. The average spectral linewidth of the narrow linewidth laser is 0.86 GHz in the wavelength tuning range. This laser can serve as a seed source for fiber amplication to obtain a high-power 2 μm laser with narrow linewidth and wide tunable wavelength.

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    Jianwei Wang, Hui Shen, Junjie Ren, Zhenxing He, Yunfeng Qi, Bo Dai, Xisheng Ye. 2 μm Ring Cavity Thulium-Doped Fiber Laser Directly Pumped by 793 nm Laser Diode with Wide Tunable Wavelength and Narrow Linewidth[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(15): 1514001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Nov. 7, 2024

    Accepted: Dec. 25, 2024

    Published Online: Jul. 8, 2025

    The Author Email: Hui Shen (huishen@siom.ac.cn), Yunfeng Qi (dreamer_7@siom.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP242230

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP242230

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