Coupling-ratio controlled wavelength tunability of a power conversion efficiency improved L-band erbium-doped fiber laser

Gong-Ru Lin; Jun-Yuan Chang; Yu-Sheng Liao; Hai-Han Lu

doi:10.1117/12.686680

4 October 2006 Coupling-ratio controlled wavelength tunability of a power conversion efficiency improved L-band erbium-doped fiber laser

Gong-Ru Lin, Jun-Yuan Chang, Yu-Sheng Liao, Hai-Han Lu

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Proceedings Volume 6351, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices III; 63511W (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.686680
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2006, Gwangju, South Korea

Abstract

A coupling-ratio controlled wavelength tunable L-band erbium-doped fiber laser with tuning range of 45nm (1567 - 1612 nm), quantum efficiency of 42%, power conversion efficiency of 37%, tuning resolution of 0.3 nm is reported. The wavelength-tuning is achieved by a tunable band-pass filter (TBPF) or by adjusting the tunable-ratio optical coupler (TROC) without TBPF because of the difference of intracavity loss. The output wavelength can be tunable in the full L-band with TBPF, from 1567 to 1612 nm, and the pulse-width is <14.2 ps. Specially, during the wavelength-tunable process without TBPF, the modulation frequency of about 1 GHz remains unchanged and near-transform-limited pulses are generated by linear compression with 32.5 m single mode fiber (SMF) under 10% output coupling ratio.

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Gong-Ru Lin, Jun-Yuan Chang, Yu-Sheng Liao, and Hai-Han Lu "Coupling-ratio controlled wavelength tunability of a power conversion efficiency improved L-band erbium-doped fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 6351, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices III, 63511W (4 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.686680

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