Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 4, 041403(2011)

Generation of tunable multi-wavelength optical short pulses using self-seeded Fabry-Perot laser diode and tilted multimode fiber Bragg grating

Tongjian Cai, Yunqi Liu, Xiaobei Zhang, and Tingyun Wang
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  • Key Lab of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Network, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China
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    We experimentally demonstrate the simultaneous generation of tunable multi-wavelength picosecond laser pulses using a self-seeding configuration that consists of a gain-switched Fabry-Perot laser diode (FPLD) with an external cavity formed by a tilted multimode fiber Bragg grating. Dual- and triple-wavelength pulses are obtained and tuned in a flexible manner by changing the temperature of the FPLD. The side mode suppression ratio larger than 25 dB is achieved at different dual- and triple-wavelengths and the typical pulsewidth of the output pulses is ?70 ps. In the experiment, the wavelength separation can be narrowed to 0.57 nm.

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    Tongjian Cai, Yunqi Liu, Xiaobei Zhang, Tingyun Wang, "Generation of tunable multi-wavelength optical short pulses using self-seeded Fabry-Perot laser diode and tilted multimode fiber Bragg grating," Chin. Opt. Lett. 9, 041403 (2011)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Oct. 8, 2010

    Accepted: Dec. 6, 2010

    Published Online: Mar. 30, 2011

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    DOI:10.3788/COL201109.041403

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