Multi-wavelength operation of an erbium-doped fiber ring laser using a dual-pass Mach-Zehnder comb filter

被引：140

作者：

An, HL

Lin, XZ

Pun, EYB ^{[1
]}

Liu, HD

机构：

[1] City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Elect Engn, Kowloon, Peoples R China

[2] Peking Univ, Dept Phys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China

来源：

OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS | 1999年 / 169卷 / 1-6期

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

erbium; fiber laser; multi-wavelength; Mach-Zehnder interferometer;

D O I：

10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00422-8

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We propose and demonstrate a novel multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber ring laser. A dual-pass Mach-Zehnder (M-Z) interferometer fiber device is used as a comb filter inside the fiber laser cavity. Simultaneous oscillation of nine wavelengths is obtained when the erbium-doped fiber is immersed in liquid nitrogen. Tuning of the peak wavelengths and the spacings between adjacent modes in this laser is also demonstrated by controlling the optical path difference between the two arms of the M-Z device. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：159 / 165

页数：7

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