High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Volume. 8, Issue 2, 02000e17(2020)

Tunable optical frequency comb from a compact and robust Er:fiber laser

Zhiwei Zhu1, Yang Liu1, Daping Luo1, Chenglin Gu1, Lian Zhou1, Gehui Xie1, Zejiang Deng1, and Wenxue Li2
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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    (a) Experimental setup. APD, avalanche photodiode; CIR, circulator at 1550 nm; EDF, Er-doped fiber; FC/APC, FC/APC connectors; FDL, electrically controlled fiber delay line; HNLF, highly nonlinear fiber; , homemade -to- interferometer; LD, 976 nm laser diode; PD, fiber-coupled photodiode; PLL, phase-locked loop system; PZT, piezoelectric transducer; SESAM, packaged semiconductor saturable absorber mirror; WDM, 980/1550 nm wavelength division multiplexer. (b) The photograph and movie (Visualization 1) of the ‘optics package’ and one package of the PLLs .
    (a) The optical spectrum of the oscillator. (b) Measured RF spectrum of the repetition rate (300 kHz resolution). (c) The tunable repetition rates with FDL modulations (10 Hz resolution). (d) Long-term output power of the oscillator above 12 h and the stability test (Visualization 2). (e) The original amplitude noise (blue line) and the integral amplitude noise (green line) from the oscillator. (f) The pulse duration of the compressed pulse after the amplifier.
    (a) The supercontinuum after HNLF with the compressed pulses. (b) The RF spectrum of the frequency detected by the APD.
    (a) The recorded time series of the offset. (b) The counts of the offset. (c) The overlapping Allan deviation of the recorded . (d) The recorded time series of the offset. (e) The counts of the offset. (f) The overlapping Allan deviation of the recorded .
    (a) The noise characterization of . The phase noise of stabilized with the pump current (blue line), the integrated phase noise of the stabilized with the pump current (green line) and the introduced -separation line (orange line). (b) The noise characterization of . The phase noise of stabilized with the PZT (blue line) and the integrated phase noise of stabilized with the PZT (green line).
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    Zhiwei Zhu, Yang Liu, Daping Luo, Chenglin Gu, Lian Zhou, Gehui Xie, Zejiang Deng, Wenxue Li. Tunable optical frequency comb from a compact and robust Er:fiber laser[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2020, 8(2): 02000e17

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Dec. 17, 2019

    Accepted: Mar. 31, 2020

    Posted: Apr. 2, 2020

    Published Online: May. 9, 2020

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    DOI:10.1017/hpl.2020.17

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