title: Soliton mode locking fiber laser with an all-fiber polarization interference filter.
abstract: An erbium doped fiber ring laser achieving soliton mode locking by the use of an intra-cavity all-fiber polarization interference filter (AFPIF) has been demonstrated. To incorporate an AFPIF with relative narrow transmission bandwidth, the laser has produced clean soliton pulses of 1.2 ps duration at a repetition rate of 14.98 MHz with a polarization extinction ratio up to 25.7 dB. Moreover, we have demonstrated that the operating wavelength of the mode locking laser can be tuned over 20 nm range from 1545 to 1565 nm by thermally tuning the AFPIF cavity.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Photonic and Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. yanz1@aston.ac.uk
authors.forename: Zhijun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Hushan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Kaiming
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Yishan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang