Multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on a WaveShaper

Minggui Wan; Xinhuan Feng; Yanbing Jin; Zhaohui Li; Bai-ou Guan

doi:10.1117/1.OE.53.5.056115

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23 May 2014 Multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on a WaveShaper

Minggui Wan, Xinhuan Feng, Yanbing Jin, Zhaohui Li, Bai-ou Guan

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Optical Engineering, 53(5), 056115 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.53.5.056115

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We propose and demonstrate a simple multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) scheme based on a WaveShaper. The WaveShaper can not only act as a multichannel filter but can also introduce wavelength-dependent loss (WDL) in the laser cavity. The WDL can effectively suppress the mode competition caused by the homogeneous gain broadening of the EDF. As a result, up to an 11-wavelength lasing operation with a wavelength spacing of 0.8 nm has been achieved. The power distribution among wavelengths is uniform and the measured power fluctuation of each wavelength is less than 1 dB.

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Minggui Wan, Xinhuan Feng, Yanbing Jin, Zhaohui Li, and Bai-ou Guan "Multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on a WaveShaper," Optical Engineering 53(5), 056115 (23 May 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.53.5.056115

Published: 23 May 2014

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