Study of dual-coupler fiber ring and saturable absorber-based stable single-longitudinal-mode fiber laser

Zhengkang Wang; Jianming Shang; Lihua Tang; Kuanlin Mu; Song Yu; Yaojun Qiao

doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.6.066113

20 June 2019 Study of dual-coupler fiber ring and saturable absorber-based stable single-longitudinal-mode fiber laser

Zhengkang Wang, Jianming Shang, Lihua Tang, Kuanlin Mu, Song Yu, Yaojun Qiao

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 6, 066113 (June 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.6.066113

Abstract

A configuration of single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) erbium-doped-fiber (EDF) ring laser with high stability and narrow linewidth is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The device is composed of a dual-coupler fiber ring (DCFR) and an unpumped EDF-based saturable absorber (SA); the DCFR serves as the mode filter and facilitates the selection of the SLM while the SA produces the ultranarrow band autotracking filter effect and guarantees the SLM out. This scheme possesses the merits of being easy to fabricate, good performance, and high stability. It is easy to manufacture without strict limitations in the length of the DCFR. The output of the SLM EDF laser presents excellent performance with a linewidth of 1.52 kHz and the optical signal-to-noise ratio of 54 dB. Moreover, the proposed EDF laser exhibits remarkably good stability: the SLM operation is observed to have been stable for 3 h; the output power fluctuation and the central wavelength variation of the laser are 0.011 dB and 0.02 nm in 1 h, respectively.

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Zhengkang Wang, Jianming Shang, Lihua Tang, Kuanlin Mu, Song Yu, and Yaojun Qiao "Study of dual-coupler fiber ring and saturable absorber-based stable single-longitudinal-mode fiber laser," Optical Engineering 58(6), 066113 (20 June 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.6.066113

Received: 3 April 2019; Accepted: 3 June 2019; Published: 20 June 2019

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