A 1.97 mu m multiwavelength thulium-doped silica fiber laser based on a nonlinear amplifier loop mirror

作者:Peng Wanjing*; Yan Fengping; Li Qi; Liu Shuo; Feng Ting; Tan Siyu
来源:Laser Physics Letters, 2013, 10(11): 115102.
DOI:10.1088/1612-2011/10/11/115102

摘要

A 1.97 mu m multiwavelength Tm-doped fiber laser based on a nonlinear amplifier loop mirror (NALM) has been experimentally demonstrated. The NALM with 500 m standard single mode fiber introduces intensity-dependent gain to alleviate mode competition caused by homogeneous gain broadening in Tm-doped fibers. At room temperature, up to 42 wavelengths with a wavelength spacing of 0.33 nm oscillate within a 10-dB bandwidth simultaneously. Repeat measurement of the laser spectrum shows the wavelength drift of a multiwavelength Tm-doped fiber laser is less than 0.05 nm in 40 min.