Aporta, I.Leandro González, DanielQuintela, M. A.Pérez Herrera, Rosa AnaLópez-Amo Sáinz, ManuelLópez Higuera, José Miguel2019-09-162019-09-162017I. Aporta Litago, D. Leandro, M. Á. Quintela, R. A. Pérez-Herrera, M. López-Amo and J. M. López-Higuera, 'Tunable SESAM-Based Mode-Locked Soliton Fiber Laser in Linear Cavity by Axial-Strain Applied to an FBG,' in Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 35, no. 23, pp. 5003-5009, 1 Dec.1, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2017.27692210733-872410.1109/JLT.2017.2769221https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/34829A 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.6 p.application/pdfeng© 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other work.Optical fiber lasersMode locked lasersLaser tuningOptical solitonsFiber nonlinear opticsFiber Bragg gratingsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess