Switchable dual-wavelength fiber lasers based on a semiconductor optical amplifier and a polarization-maintaining fiber Bragg grating

Suchun Feng; Ou Xu; Shaohua Lu; Xiangqiao Mao; Tigang Ning; Shuisheng Jian

doi:10.1117/1.3090436

1 March 2009 Switchable dual-wavelength fiber lasers based on a semiconductor optical amplifier and a polarization-maintaining fiber Bragg grating

Suchun Feng, Ou Xu, Shaohua Lu, Xiangqiao Mao, Tigang Ning, Shuisheng Jian

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 48, Issue 3, 035001 (March 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3090436

Abstract

Switchable dual-wavelength fiber lasers with orthogonal polarizations, based on the semiconductor optical amplifier at room temperature, are proposed. One polarization-maintaining fiber Bragg grating (PMFBG) is used as the wavelength-selective filter in three different laser configurations. Owing to the polarization-dependent loss of the PMFBG, the laser can be designed to operate in stable dual-wavelength or wavelength-switching modes with a wavelength spacing of 0.336 nm at room temperature by adjusting a polarization controller in each laser configuration. The amplitude variation over nearly half an hour is less than 0.1 dB for both wavelengths in each laser configuration, which is more stable than that of erbium-doped fiber lasers with similar configuration.

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Suchun Feng, Ou Xu, Shaohua Lu, Xiangqiao Mao, Tigang Ning, and Shuisheng Jian "Switchable dual-wavelength fiber lasers based on a semiconductor optical amplifier and a polarization-maintaining fiber Bragg grating," Optical Engineering 48(3), 035001 (1 March 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3090436

Published: 1 March 2009

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