Stable Multi-Wavelength Thulium-Doped Fiber Laser With Two Cascaded Single-Mode-Four-Mode-Single-Mode Fiber Interferometers

Ying Guo; Fengping Yan; Ting Feng; Qi Qin; Luna Zhang; Biao Guan; Wenguo Han; Zhuoya Bai; Hong Zhou; Yuping Suo

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3044899

IEEE Access (Jan 2021)

Stable Multi-Wavelength Thulium-Doped Fiber Laser With Two Cascaded Single-Mode-Four-Mode-Single-Mode Fiber Interferometers

Ying Guo,
Fengping Yan,
Ting Feng,
Qi Qin,
Luna Zhang,
Biao Guan,
Wenguo Han,
Zhuoya Bai,
Hong Zhou,
Yuping Suo

Affiliations

Ying Guo: ORCiD; Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network, Ministry of Education, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Fengping Yan: ORCiD; Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network, Ministry of Education, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Ting Feng: ORCiD; Photonics Information Innovation Center, Hebei Provincial Center for Optical Sensing Innovations, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding, China
Qi Qin: ORCiD; Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network, Ministry of Education, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Luna Zhang: ORCiD; Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network, Ministry of Education, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Biao Guan: Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network, Ministry of Education, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Wenguo Han: Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network, Ministry of Education, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Zhuoya Bai: Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network, Ministry of Education, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
Hong Zhou: Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan
Yuping Suo: Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3044899
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9
pp. 1197 – 1204

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We propose and experimentally demonstrate a multi-wavelength thulium-doped fiber laser using two cascaded single-mode-four-mode-single-mode (SFS) fiber interferometers and a 150-m-long highly nonlinear fiber. The transmission properties of SFS fiber interferometers with two different four-mode fiber (FMF) lengths are analyzed theoretically. The interferometer with a longer FMF is used to select specific wavelengths, and the one with a shorter FMF is used to stimulate more laser lines. By adjusting the polarization controller and increasing the pump power, the number of output laser channels and the wavelength spacings can be changed and switched. By selecting the proper length of the FMFs, 31 lasing lines are achieved with covering a wavelength range of ~22 nm. The power fluctuation and the wavelength drift of the 31-wavelength operation for the proposed fiber laser are within 0.706 dB and 0.02 nm, respectively.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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