Experimental study of a tunable fiber ring laser stability
| Autor: | F. Liegeois, Andrei Gusarov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Distributed feedback laser
Optical fiber Materials science business.industry Physics::Optics Ring laser Laser Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials law.invention Optics law Optical cavity Fiber laser Laser power scaling Electrical and Electronic Engineering Physical and Theoretical Chemistry business Free spectral range |
| Zdroj: | Optics Communications. 234:391-397 |
| ISSN: | 0030-4018 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.optcom.2004.02.040 |
| Popis: | We have experimentally studied the mid-term (1–1000 s) stability of a traveling-wave unidirectional Erbium-doped fiber (EDF) ring laser as a function of the pump power, doped fiber length and type, total laser cavity length, polarization control and exit coupler ratio. The laser operated in a multi-wavelength regime with the central wavelength defined by a 1.12 GHz-band tunable Fabry–Perot filter (FPF) with a 3.1 THz free spectral range (FSR). We have found that the key parameters defining the laser stability are the cavity length and the out-coupling ratio, while the polarization control has little influence on the multi-wavelength regime. In the optimal configuration, we obtained output power variations below 0.02 dB of a total power of about 1.5 mW in a 10 min interval. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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