C-band wavelength-swept single-longitudinalmode erbium-doped fiber ring laser.
A wavelength-swept single-longitudinal-mode erbium-doped fiber ring laser capable of operating at sweeping frequency in the order of a few kHz is designed and demonstrated by using a fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter and a Sagnac loop incorporated with a 3.5-meter unpumped erbium-doped fiber. The laser operates in continuous-wave (CW) mode and can sweep approximately 45 nm over the entire C-band (1520nm-1570nm) window with linewidth less than 0.7 kHz. The optimum wavelength sweeping frequency in order to achieve the best output power stability was found to be approximately20Hz with sweeping-induced power fluctuation of only 0.1%.
Zhang
Kang
K
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. kzhang8@jhu.edu
Kang
Jin U
JU
D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D053844:Lasers, Solid-State; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*