Novel multiple-frequency Q-switched fiber laser by using chirped fiber Bragg grating Fabry-Perot etalon

X. P. Cheng; P. Shum; C. H. Tse; R. F. Wu; W. C. Tan

doi:10.1117/12.762435

25 February 2008 Novel multiple-frequency Q-switched fiber laser by using chirped fiber Bragg grating Fabry-Perot etalon

X. P. Cheng, P. Shum, C. H. Tse, R. F. Wu, W. C. Tan

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Proceedings Volume 6873, Fiber Lasers V: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 68731S (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762435
Event: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We propose a novel approach to increase the repetition rate of all-fiber Q-switched laser. This proposed ring cavity fiber laser consists of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) functions as the wavelength discriminator and a chirped FBG Fabry-Perot (FP) etalon serve as the transmission filter inside the ring cavity. The Q-switching operation is achieved by periodically tuning of the FP etalon and hence modulating the loss of the cavity. A numerical model is developed to simulate this type fiber ring laser with consideration of FBGs' spectra. Our simulation shows that the repetition rate of the Q-switched pulse can be increased by multiple times that depend on the tuning range and the bandwidth of the chirped FBG FP etalon. Experimentally we achieved 14 kHz Q-switched pulses under 3.5 kHz PZT modulation frequency.

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X. P. Cheng, P. Shum, C. H. Tse, R. F. Wu, and W. C. Tan "Novel multiple-frequency Q-switched fiber laser by using chirped fiber Bragg grating Fabry-Perot etalon", Proc. SPIE 6873, Fiber Lasers V: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 68731S (25 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.762435

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