Temperature stability improvement of a multiwavelength Sagnac loop fiber laser using a high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber as a birefringent component

Xia Yu; Duan Liu; Hui Dong; SongNian Fu; Xin Yong Dong; M. Tang; Ping Shum; Nam Quoc Ngo

doi:10.1117/1.2192513

1 April 2006 Temperature stability improvement of a multiwavelength Sagnac loop fiber laser using a high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber as a birefringent component

Xia Yu, Duan Liu, Hui Dong, SongNian Fu, Xin Yong Dong, M. Tang, Ping Shum, Nam Quoc Ngo

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 45, Issue 4, 044201 (April 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2192513

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a temperature-stable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser source using a high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber (HiBi-PCF) as the birefringent component of the Sagnac loop filter within the laser cavity. Three different high-birefringence (Hi-Bi) fibers are used in the loop filter to compare the temperature stability of the fiber laser systems: polarization-maintaining erbium-doped fiber (PM-EDF), panda Hi-Bi fiber, and HiBi-PCF. Because of the high birefringence and low temperature sensitivity of the HiBi-PCF, fiber length in the loop is greatly reduced and the temperature stability of the system is dramatically enhanced.

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Xia Yu, Duan Liu, Hui Dong, SongNian Fu, Xin Yong Dong, M. Tang, Ping Shum, and Nam Quoc Ngo "Temperature stability improvement of a multiwavelength Sagnac loop fiber laser using a high-birefringent photonic crystal fiber as a birefringent component," Optical Engineering 45(4), 044201 (1 April 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2192513

Published: 1 April 2006

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