Frontiers in Physics (May 2023)

Single longitudinal mode narrow linewidth thulium-doped fiber laser based on an eye-shaped dual-ring filter

  • Xiangdong Wang,
  • Fengping Yan,
  • Hao Guo,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Qi Qin,
  • Dandan Yang,
  • Pengfei Wang,
  • Ting Li,
  • Chenhao Yu,
  • Biao Guan,
  • Kazuo Kumamoto,
  • Yuping Suo,
  • Yan Bai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2023.1188608
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11

Abstract

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A single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) thulium-doped fiber laser, based on an eye-shaped passive dual-ring filter, is designed and constructed. The eye-shaped passive compound cavity consisting of four couplers is used to increase the longitudinal mode spacing, and its performance is numerically analyzed in detail. A homemade uniform fiber Bragg grating serves as a wavelength selection device and a saturable absorber is used to further suppress the intense longitudinal mode competition in the laser cavity, ensuring the single-longitudinal-mode output. The experimental results demonstrate a laser output with a center wavelength of 2,049.85 nm and an optical signal-to-noise ratio of 63 dB. Moreover, the power fluctuation is less than 0.6 dB, and the center wavelength fluctuation is less than 0.03 nm over a continuous measurement period of 60 min, demonstrating an excellent stability. The laser linewidth is measured using an unbalanced Michelson interferometer and β-separation line method, resulting in a linewidth of 11.22 kHz.

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