Tunable multiwavelength fiber laser using a comb filter based on erbium-ytterbium co-doped polarization maintaining fiber loop mirror

A tunable comb filter based on a fiber loop mirror setup, which incorporates a piece of pumped erbium-ytterbium co-doped polarization maintaining fiber, is newly presented. It is accomplished by controlling the pump power or adjusting a polarization controller in the loop mirror, which results from the fact that the effective birefringence of the erbium-ytterbium co-doped polarization maintaining fiber depends on the pump power and polarization state of the traversing signal. By using the proposed comb filter, a continuously tunable multiwavelength fiber ring laser in the L-band is successfully demonstrated. (c) 2008 Optical Society of America.