Fiber laser thermally tunable by a filter composed of two Sagnac interferometers

被引:13
作者
Huixtiaca-Cuatecatl, Isaac [1 ]
Beltran-Perez, Georgina [1 ]
Castillo-Mixoatl, Juan [1 ]
Munoz-Aguirre, Severino [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Autonoma Puebla, Fac Ciencias Fis Matemat Benemerita, Puebla 72570, Mexico
关键词
fiber optic laser; Sagnac interferometer; tunable filter;
D O I
10.1109/JQE.2007.910449
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Many applications, such as fiber Bragg grating characterization, wavelength division multiplexing, etc. require tunable laser sources with one emission line in a certain wavelength range. Generally, such sources are laser systems combined with tunable filters. In this work an all-fiber laser tunable by a filter composed of two Sagnac interferometers in series is described. The filter loops were constructed of high birefringence fibers (HiBiFi) and the filter was thermally tunable with a single transmission maximum in the Erbium gain spectrum. The results showed that for interferometers with 14 cm HiBiFi length a bandwidth reduction of the transmission peak, a single-line laser emission, a tuning sensitivity of approx. -0.8 nm/degrees C and a spectral full-width at half-maximum bandwidth of 0.03 nm in the range of 1538-1580 nm were obtained.
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页码:49 / 55
页数:7
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