Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 35, Issue 10, 1455(2008)
Single-Longitudinal-Mode and Wavelength-Switchable Fiber Laser with Linear Cavity
A new kind of single-longitudinal-mode, wavelength-switchable fiber laser is proposed and experimentally demonstrated in this paper. Such fiber laser has the Fabry-Perot (F-P) cavity and uses 980 nm pumped erbium-doped fiber (EDF) as gain media. And an umpumped EDF in the cavity is used as the saturable absorber to achieve single-longitudinal-mode operation, meanwhile a 1×N optical fiber switch and N parallel fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are used as the wavelength selection module to achieve wavelength-switchable operation. With 90 mW pumping power, the single-longitudinal-mode laser with -0.5 dBm peak power and 3.6 kHz linewidth is generated; And the wavelength can be randomly switched among the wavelengths of 1574.6 nm, 1579.7 nm, 1584.8 nm and 1589.9 nm by applying the suitable electrical signal to fiber switch.
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Yu Li, Song Yuejiang, Zhang Xuping. Single-Longitudinal-Mode and Wavelength-Switchable Fiber Laser with Linear Cavity[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2008, 35(10): 1455