A widely tunable narrow linewidth semiconductor fiber ring laser

Deyu Zhou; Paul R. Prucnal; Ivan Glesk

doi:10.1109/68.681482

A widely tunable narrow linewidth semiconductor fiber ring laser

Deyu Zhou, Paul R. Prucnal, Ivan Glesk

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Abstract

We have demonstrated a novel approach to obtain a 0.1-nm line width laser with 38-dB sidemode suppression by utilizing a 1.3-μm semiconductor optical amplifier in a fiber unidirectional ring that consists of a linear polarizer and polarization controllers. The laser has a low-threshold current of 22.5 mA as well as a widely tuning range of 28 nm. The new approach is applicable to the 1.55-μm region as well. It is expected that nanosecond wavelength tuning speed is feasible using this approach in conjunction with fast electrooptic polarization controllers, short cavities and low-cavity losses.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	781-783
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	10
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/68.681482
State	Published - Jun 1998

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

Electrooptic polarization controller
Lyot filter
Narrow linewidth
Polarization maintaining fibers
Semiconductor fiber ring laser
Semiconductor optical amplifier
Tunable lasers
Wavelength-division multiplexing

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