Tunable and switchable multiwavelength fiber lasers with broadband range based on nonlinear polarization rotation technique

Xiaohui Li; Xueming Liu; Dong Mao; Xiaohong Hu; Hua Lu

doi:10.1117/1.3485754

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1 September 2010 Tunable and switchable multiwavelength fiber lasers with broadband range based on nonlinear polarization rotation technique

Xiaohui Li, Xueming Liu, Dong Mao, Xiaohong Hu, Hua Lu

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Optical Engineering, 49(9), 094303 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3485754

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Switchable multiwavelength fiber laser outputs with a wide tuning range are experimentally observed in an ultralong cavity. Because of the long spooled single-mode fiber and filter effect of the cavity, multiwavelength lasers with the spacing of ~14.5 nm are obtained. The proposed fiber laser has the capacity of simultaneously emitting the three wavelengths. By means of adjusting the polarization controllers, the arbitrary single- and dual-wavelength operations are achieved in our laser.

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Xiaohui Li, Xueming Liu, Dong Mao, Xiaohong Hu, and Hua Lu "Tunable and switchable multiwavelength fiber lasers with broadband range based on nonlinear polarization rotation technique," Optical Engineering 49(9), 094303 (1 September 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3485754

Published: 1 September 2010

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