Gourd-shaped subring resonator-based single longitudinal mode erbium-doped fiber laser

Lihua Tang; Jianming Shang; Zhengkang Wang; Kuanlin Mu; Yaojun Qiao; Song Yu

doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.6.066110

17 June 2019 Gourd-shaped subring resonator-based single longitudinal mode erbium-doped fiber laser

Lihua Tang, Jianming Shang, Zhengkang Wang, Kuanlin Mu, Yaojun Qiao, Song Yu

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Funded by: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of China, Fund of State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications of BUPT, Youth Research and Innovation Program of BUPT, Open Funds of IPOC

Optical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 6, 066110 (June 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.6.066110

Abstract

A gourd-shaped subring resonator (GSR)-based single longitudinal mode erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The GSR can effectively expand the free spectral range of the fiber laser due to the Vernier effect and eliminate the dense longitudinal modes greatly. At the same time, an unpumped erbium-doped fiber serves as a saturable absorber to suppress mode hopping and stabilize frequency effectively. The experimental results show that the linewidth of the produced EDFL is ∼1.84 kHz and the output stability of power variation is nearly 0.02 dB. It can be seen that the EDFL could be exploited in applications where narrow linewidth and high power stability are both required.

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Lihua Tang, Jianming Shang, Zhengkang Wang, Kuanlin Mu, Yaojun Qiao, and Song Yu "Gourd-shaped subring resonator-based single longitudinal mode erbium-doped fiber laser," Optical Engineering 58(6), 066110 (17 June 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.6.066110

Received: 14 March 2019; Accepted: 29 May 2019; Published: 17 June 2019

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