High-Stability Broadband Wavelength-Tunable Single-Frequency Ytterbium-Doped All-Fiber Compound Ring Cavity

Bao-le Lu; Jin Kang; Xin-Yuan Qi; Xiao-Qiang Feng; Lei Hou; Man Jiang; Hao-Wei Chen; Yang Wang; Kai-Le Wang; Jin-Tao Bai

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2657747

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2017)

High-Stability Broadband Wavelength-Tunable Single-Frequency Ytterbium-Doped All-Fiber Compound Ring Cavity

Bao-le Lu,
Jin Kang,
Xin-Yuan Qi,
Xiao-Qiang Feng,
Lei Hou,
Man Jiang,
Hao-Wei Chen,
Yang Wang,
Kai-Le Wang,
Jin-Tao Bai

Affiliations

Bao-le Lu: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Jin Kang: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Xin-Yuan Qi: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Xiao-Qiang Feng: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Lei Hou: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Man Jiang: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Hao-Wei Chen: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Yang Wang: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Kai-Le Wang: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
Jin-Tao Bai: National Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials (Culture Base), Institute of Photonics and Photon-Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2657747
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 1 – 8

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A high-stability wavelength-tunable single-frequency (SF) ytterbium-doped all-fiber compound ring laser has been demonstrated experimentally. The compound ring cavity is composed of a fiber optical tunable filter, a high-finesse ring filter, and a loop mirror filter. Three segments of ytterbium-doped fibers are employed as the gain medium or saturable absorber, respectively. The SF operation is observed to be stable during 1 h without mode hopping. The SF fiber laser achieves a wide-band tunability from 1030 to 1090 nm with maximum output slope efficiency of 7.95%. The power instability over 2 h gives standard deviation value of 1.34%. The average linewidth is 8.8 kHz and the relaxation oscillation frequency is at 62 kHz.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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