Title :
Low-threshold tunable CW and Q-switched fibre laser operating at 1.55 μm
Author :
Mears, Robert J. ; Reekie, L. ; Poole, S.B. ; Payne, David N.
Author_Institution :
University of Southampton, Department of Electronics & Information Engineering, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
A new single-mode fibre laser source is described. The laser is tunable over 25 nm in the wavelength region of 1.55 μm and produces in excess of 2 W peak power in a Q-switched mode.
Keywords :
Q-switching; erbium; fibre optics; laser tuning; solid lasers; CW laser; Er3+:glass fibre laser; Q-switched mode; single-mode fibre laser source; tunable laser; wavelength 1.55 microns;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19860111
