title: Polarized erbium-doped superfluorescent fiber source utilizing double-pass backward configuration.
abstract: An erbium-doped superfluorescent fiber source utilizing a double-pass backward configuration is analyzed when a polarizer is inserted into an erbium-doped fiber to obtain polarized output light. Such a polarized configuration is simulated and experimentally confirmed to have the following characteristics: high polarization power conversion efficiency, pump-power-independent mean-wavelength operation, and low sensitivity to polarizer insertion loss.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. lon@ntu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Lon A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chun Te
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Gia Wei
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: You