Broad-band wavelength-tunable, single frequency, and single polarization bismuth oxide-based erbium-doped fiber laser |
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Authors: | H Sotobayashi JT Gopinath Y Takushima K Hsu EP Ippen |
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Affiliation: | Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA; |
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Abstract: | We demonstrate a broad-band wavelength-tunable Bismuth Oxide-based Erbium-doped fiber (Bi-EDF) laser covering both the conventional wavelength band and the long wavelength band. It features single frequency and single polarization oscillation; the former is obtained by making the cavity length short and incorporating an intracavity narrow-band fiber Fabry-Pe/spl acute/rot filter, and the latter is achieved with a sigma laser configuration using nonpolarization maintaining fibers. Tuning over 90 nm (1520-1610 nm) is achieved by utilizing the broad gain bandwidth of Bi-EDF amplifier. |
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