Tunable SESAM-based mode-locked soliton fiber laser in linear cavity by axial-strain applied to a FBG
Fecha
2017Autor
Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa
Identificador del proyecto
ES/1PE/TEC2016-76021
Impacto
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10.1109/JLT.2017.2769221
Resumen
A self-started stable tunable mode-locked (ML) soliton fiber laser in a linear cavity structure composed by commercial passive elements is presented in this paper. It is based on the combination of an Erbium doped fiber (EDF) as the active medium, and a saturated fiber Bragg grating (FBG) as a partial mirror of the cavity. The other side of the cavity consists of a semiconductor saturable absorbe ...
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A self-started stable tunable mode-locked (ML) soliton fiber laser in a linear cavity structure composed by commercial passive elements is presented in this paper. It is based on the combination of an Erbium doped fiber (EDF) as the active medium, and a saturated fiber Bragg grating (FBG) as a partial mirror of the cavity. The other side of the cavity consists of a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) acting also as the mode-locking device. The central wavelength of the FBG is selected by the application of axial strain giving rise to a tunable soliton over 8.6 nm on the C band with a variable spacing of 0.01 nm. The laser delivers 18.9 ps long pulses with a 0.14 nm bandwidth, an 8.2 MHz repetition rate, a pulse energy of 89 pJ and a peak power of 4.71 W. [--]
Materias
Optical fiber lasers,
Mode locked lasers,
Laser tuning,
Optical solitons,
Fiber nonlinear optics,
Fiber Bragg gratings
Editor
IEEE
Publicado en
Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 35, no. 23, December 1, 2017
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa Saila /
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute of Smart Cities - ISC
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Entidades Financiadoras
This work was supported in part by the Spanish Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología under Project TEC2016-76021-C2—R and in part by the Feder funds and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture, under Scholarship FPU14/02196.