Broadband discrete and continuous wavelength tuning of erbium-doped fiber ring lasers

Antoine Bellemare; Michel Begin; Martin Guy; Sophie LaRochelle; Gregory W. Schinn; Michel Tetu

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15 December 2000 Broadband discrete and continuous wavelength tuning of erbium-doped fiber ring lasers

Antoine Bellemare, Michel Begin, Martin Guy, Sophie LaRochelle, Gregory W. Schinn, Michel Tetu

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Proceedings Volume 4087, Applications of Photonic Technology 4; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.406325
Event: 2000 International Conference on Application of Photonic Technology (ICAPT 2000), 2000, Quebec City, Canada

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Broadband discrete and continuous tuning of erbium-doped fiber lasers is demonstrated in this paper. First, an exact multiple of 100 GHz frequency step-tunable L band erbium-doped fiber ring laser is presented. Precise multiple of 100 GHz step-tunability is obtain by proper angle positioning of a 100 GHz Fabry-Perot micro etalon in the laser cavity. Secondly, continuous tuning over 90 nm is shown in a laser using gain-band switching between C and L band EDFAs. Lastly, a tunable laser design that uses a single gain medium to obtain 100 nm of tuning in the C and L bands is demonstrated.

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Antoine Bellemare, Michel Begin, Martin Guy, Sophie LaRochelle, Gregory W. Schinn, and Michel Tetu "Broadband discrete and continuous wavelength tuning of erbium-doped fiber ring lasers", Proc. SPIE 4087, Applications of Photonic Technology 4, (15 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.406325

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