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

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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
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
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 1998

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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