Kelly sideband suppression and wavelength tuning of a conventional soliton in a Tm-doped hybrid mode-locked fiber laser with an all-fiber Lyot filter

Jianfeng Li; Yazhou Wang; Hongyu Luo; Yong Liu; Zhijun Yan; Zhongyuan Sun; Lin Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000103

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 2, 103(2019)

Kelly sideband suppression and wavelength tuning of a conventional soliton in a Tm-doped hybrid mode-locked fiber laser with an all-fiber Lyot filter

Jianfeng Li^1、*, Yazhou Wang¹, Hongyu Luo¹, Yong Liu¹, Zhijun Yan^2,4, Zhongyuan Sun³, and Lin Zhang^3,5

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

²School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

³Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT), Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK

⁴e-mail: yanzhijin@gmail.com

⁵e-mail: l.zhang@aston.ac.uk

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Aug. 23, 2018

Accepted: Nov. 19, 2018

Published Online: Feb. 19, 2019

The Author Email: Jianfeng Li (lijianfeng@uestc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000103

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