Tunable mode-locked fiber laser using multifunctional long-period grating

Chen Jiang; Zhiqiang Wang; Ying Wan; Ling Yun; Yuehui Ma; Siyu Chen; Bing Sun; Qianqian Huang; Chengbo Mou; Yunqi Liu; Zuxing Zhang

doi:10.3788/COL202523.040603

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 4, 040603(2025)

Tunable mode-locked fiber laser using multifunctional long-period grating

Chen Jiang¹, Zhiqiang Wang², Ying Wan^3、*, Ling Yun¹, Yuehui Ma⁴, Siyu Chen⁴, Bing Sun¹, Qianqian Huang⁴, Chengbo Mou⁴, Yunqi Liu⁴, and Zuxing Zhang^1、**

Author Affiliations

¹Advanced Photonic Technology Lab, College of Electronic and Optical Engineering & College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China

²Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China

³School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

⁴Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

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Chen Jiang, Zhiqiang Wang, Ying Wan, Ling Yun, Yuehui Ma, Siyu Chen, Bing Sun, Qianqian Huang, Chengbo Mou, Yunqi Liu, Zuxing Zhang, "Tunable mode-locked fiber laser using multifunctional long-period grating," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 040603 (2025)

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Paper Information

Category: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

Received: Aug. 22, 2024

Accepted: Oct. 21, 2024

Published Online: Apr. 11, 2025

The Author Email: Ying Wan (yingwan@nuist.edu.cn), Zuxing Zhang (zxzhang@nujpt.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.040603

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.040603

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