Wavelength-switched optical pulse generation in a fiber ring laser with a Fabry-Perot semiconductor modulator and a sampled fiber Bragg grating

Author

Zhao, Donghui ; Chan, Kam Tai ; Liu, Y. ; Zhang, L. ; Bennion, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

13

Issue

3

fYear

2001

fDate

3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

191

Lastpage

193

Abstract

A simple mode-locked fiber ring laser for generating wavelength-switched picosecond pulses was developed in which a laser diode played the role of both an intensity modulator and a tunable filter. A serially cascaded sampled fiber Bragg grating predefined the set of four allowable output wavelengths spaced 1.6 nm apart. Wavelength switching between the longest and shortest wavelengths required only a temperature change of the laser diode by 7.63/spl deg/C.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; electro-optical modulation; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; 7.63 C; Fabry-Perot semiconductor modulator; allowable output wavelengths; fiber ring laser; intensity modulator; laser diode; mode-locked fiber ring laser; sampled fiber Bragg grating; serially cascaded sampled fiber Bragg grating; temperature change; tunable filter; wavelength switching; wavelength-switched optical pulse generation; wavelength-switched picosecond pulse generation; Diode lasers; Fiber lasers; Intensity modulation; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber filters; Optical pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Quantum cascade lasers; Ring lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.914317

Filename

914317