A widely tunable erbium-doped fiber laser pumped at 532 nm

Journal Article · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990 · IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/68.47028· OSTI ID:6923444

Chen, C Y ^[1]; Choy, M M; Andrejco, M J; Saifi, M A; Lin, C ^[2]

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1. Telecommunications Laboratories, Chung-Li (TW)
2. Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ (US)

In this paper, the authors report a tunable erbium-doped fiber laser with a very wide continuous-tuning range (1522--1567 nm). The wide tuning range was achieved using an aluminum/erbium-doped fiber; the aluminum co-doping is known to broaden the gain spectrum substantially. The tunable fiber laser has a ring laser configuration consisting of an in-line tunable etalon as the tuning element. Continuous tuning over 45 nm in the spectral range of 1522--1567 nm was achieved with 80 mW of pumping at 532 nm, using the second harmonic of a Nd:YAG laser as the pump source.

• OSTI ID: 6923444
• Journal Information: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA), Journal Name: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA) Vol. 2:1; ISSN IPTLE; ISSN 1041-1135
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
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ALLOYS
ALUMINIUM ADDITIONS
ALUMINIUM ALLOYS
AMPLIFICATION
CRYSTAL DOPING
EMISSION
ENERGY SPECTRA
ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS
ERBIUM ADDITIONS
ERBIUM ALLOYS
FIBERS
FREQUENCY MIXING
GAIN
HARMONIC GENERATION
LASER MATERIALS
LASERS
LIGHT SOURCES
MATERIALS
NEODYMIUM LASERS
OPTICAL FIBERS
RADIATION SOURCES
RARE EARTH ADDITIONS
RARE EARTH ALLOYS
RING LASERS
SOLID STATE LASERS
SPECTRA
STIMULATED EMISSION
TUNING