Title :
Electrically tunable, diode-pumped erbium-doped fibre ring laser with fibre Fabry-Perot etalon
Author :
Zyskind, J.L. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Stone, Joshua ; DiGiovanni, D.J. ; Stulz, L.W. ; Presby, H.M. ; Piccirilli, A. ; Pramayon, P.E.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Lab., Crawford Hill Lab., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
An all fibre, diode-pumped, electrically tunable ring laser is reported. Gain is provided by an erbium-doped fibre and tuning by a fibre Fabry-Perot etalon. The threshold at 1.566 mu m is 2.9 mW, the slope efficiency is 0.15 and the output power is 4.2 mW with 32 mW of pump power. The output wavelength can be tuned from 1.525 to 1.586 mu m with a variation in power of less than 3.5 dB.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; laser tuning; light interferometers; ring lasers; 1.525 to 1.586 micron; 2.9 to 4.2 mW; diodes pumped fibre laser; electrically tunable ring laser; fibre Fabry-Perot etalon; fibre ring laser; output power; output wavelength; pump power; slope efficiency; threshold;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19911209
