| Issue |
J. Eur. Opt. Soc.-Rapid Publ.
Volume 3, 2008
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| Article Number | 08036 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.2971/jeos.2008.08036 | |
| Published online | 24 November 2008 | |
Regular papers
Wavelength-tunable picosecond pulses from a passively mode-locked figure-eight Erbium-doped fiber laser with a Sagnac fiber filter
1
Electro-Optics Program, University of Dayton, Dayton OH 45469, USA
2
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Optica y Electrónica, Departamento de Optica, Puebla, Pue 72000, México
3
Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, León, Gto 37150, México
a baldemar@inaoep.mx
b pottiez@cio.mx
c Joseph.Haus@notes.udayton.edu
d ekuz@inaoep.
Received:
31
October
2008
We experimentally demonstrated a wavelength-tunable passively mode-locked Erbium-doped figure-eight fiber laser. Wide tunability is achieved using a high-birefringence (hi-bi) fiber Sagnac loop. The filter transmission pass wavelength is controlled by thermally adjusting the hi-bi fiber loop length. The output pulses are wavelength tunable over a range from 1525 nm to 1555 nm. The FWHM of the autocorrelation trace is about 3.1 ps and the pulse spectrum has a FWHM of 1.5 nm. The pulse temporal and spectral widths remain constant over the tunable range.
Key words: mode-locked fiber laser / nonlinear optical loop mirror / tunable lasers
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