Integrated Sagnac loop mirror circuit for fiber laser

Tae Ho Lee; Chang-Seok Kim; Myung Yung Jeong

doi:10.1117/12.707201

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9 February 2007 Integrated Sagnac loop mirror circuit for fiber laser

Tae Ho Lee, Chang-Seok Kim, Myung Yung Jeong

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Proceedings Volume 6476, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits IX; 64760E (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.707201
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2007, 2007, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Broadband reflection mirror is an important optical device to make a wide resonance bandwidth of the multi-wavelength fiber laser cavity including fiber Bragg grating mirrors. Though a chirped fiber Bragg grating has been used for broadband reflection mirror device, it still requires more improvements in the control of reflection wavelength bandwidth and reflection ratio, which are key design parameters of broadband reflection mirror. In this research, we propose an integrated mirror circuit based on polarization-maintaining fiber Sagnac loop interferometer to utilize for tunable resonance cavity of fiber laser with semiconductor optical amplifier. It is available to control both resonance bandwidth by varying the length of polarization-maintaining fiber and reflection ratio by tuning the polarization state of Sagnac loop. Broad resonance bandwidth of 40 nm could be obtained from Sagnac mirror with thes 0.15 m length of polarization-maintaining fiber.

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Tae Ho Lee, Chang-Seok Kim, and Myung Yung Jeong "Integrated Sagnac loop mirror circuit for fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 6476, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits IX, 64760E (9 February 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.707201

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