Wavelength-tunable picosecond pulses from a passively mode-locked figure-eight Erbium-doped fiber laser with a Sagnac fiber filter

作者：Ibarra Escamilla B^*; Pottiez O; Haus J W; Kuzin E A; Bello Jimenez M; Flores Rosas A

来源：Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, 2008, 3: 08036.

DOI：10.2971/jeos.2008.08036

• mode-locked fiber laser
• nonlinear optical loop mirror
• tunable lasers

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. [DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2008.08036]

• 出版日期2008