Wavelength-interval-switchable multi-wavelength thulium-doped fiber laser with a nonlinear dual-pass Mach-Zehnder interferometer filter in 2-μm-band

被引：30

作者：

Guo, Ying ^{[1
,2
]}

Yan, Fengping ^{[1
]}

Feng, Ting ^{[3
]}

Qin, Qi ^{[1
]}

Bai, Zhuoya ^{[1
]}

Li, Ting ^{[1
]}

Han, Wenguo ^{[1
]}

Zhou, Hong ^{[4
]}

Suo, Yuping ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] Beijing Jiaotong Univ, Inst Lightwave Technol, Key Lab All Opt Network & Adv Telecommun Network, Minist Educ, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China

[2] Zhongyuan Univ Technol, Coll Sci, Zhengzhou 450007, Peoples R China

[3] Hebei Univ, Coll Phys Sci & Technol, Photon Informat Innovat Ctr, Hebei Prov Ctr Opt Sensing Innovat, Baoding 071002, Peoples R China

[4] Osaka Inst Technol, Dept Elect Informat & Commun Engn, Asahi Ku, 5-16-1 Omiya, Osaka 5358585, Japan

[5] Shanxi Med Univ, Shanxi Prov Peoples Hosp, Taiyuan 030012, Peoples R China

来源：

OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY | 2022年 / 145卷

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

Wavelength-interval-switchable; Thulium-doped fiber laser; Nonlinear optical loop mirror; Nonlinear dual-pass Mach-Zehnder interfer-ometer; POLARIZATION-ROTATION;

D O I：

10.1016/j.optlastec.2021.107470

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A wavelength-interval-switchable multi-wavelength thulium-doped fiber laser (MWTDFL) is proposed and demonstrated, based on a nonlinear dual-pass Mach-Zehnder interferometer (NDP-MZI) filter for the first time. We investigate the NDP-MZI filter theoretically and experimentally, which has both the transmission characteristics of a dual-pass Mach-Zehnder interferometer (DP-MZI) for wavelength selection and a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) for suppressing wavelength competition. By tuning two polarization controllers (PCs), two 20-wavelength operations with an opposite phase and a same wavelength-interval of 0.46 nm are obtained and switched between each other flexibly. The maximum power fluctuation and wavelength drift measured are 0.612 dB and 0.04 nm, respectively. In addition, due to the power-equalizing effect resulting from the NOLM, 60 lasing wavelengths within a 3-dB bandwidth with an adjacent wavelength-interval of 0.23 nm are also obtained by adjusting the PCs carefully, and the stability of the MWTDFL is measured experimentally. Furthermore, the performance of the NDP-MZI using an 80 m highly nonlinear fiber has been studied in detail as well. The proposed MWTDFL may find great applications in optical communication and optical sensing.

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