Spectrally broadband Bragg grating mirror for an erbium-doped fiber laser

Andreas Othonos; Xavier Lee; Din Ping Tsai

doi:10.1117/1.600725

1 April 1996 Spectrally broadband Bragg grating mirror for an erbium-doped fiber laser

Andreas Othonos, Xavier Lee, Din Ping Tsai

Optical Engineering, Vol. 35, Issue 4, (April 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.600725

The authors design and demonstrate a high-reflector broadband Bragg mirror for a fiber laser system. A T-matrix formalism was used to design a broadband intracore mirror consisting of a series of Bragg gratings. Ultraviolet light from a KrF excimer laser was used in an interferometric setup to inscribe these Bragg gratings in a photosensitive fiber. This resulted in a broadband Bragg mirror covering a wavelength range of approximately 3.5 nm. An all-Bragg grating, erbium-doped fiber laser cavity is demonstrated using this Bragg mirror as the high reflector and a single narrowband Bragg grating centered at 1550 nm as the output coupler. Tunability of the fiber laser was achieved over the range of the high reflector using strain-induced changes on the output coupler.

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Andreas Othonos, Xavier Lee, and Din Ping Tsai "Spectrally broadband Bragg grating mirror for an erbium-doped fiber laser," Optical Engineering 35(4), (1 April 1996). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.600725

Published: 1 April 1996

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