Tunable single-frequency erbiurn-doped fiber ring laser with 25 GHz channel spacing based on the ITU-T grid

Author

Ryu, Han Young ; Lee, Won-Kyu ; Kim, Seung Kwan ; Moon, Han Seb ; Suh, Ho Suhng ; Lee, Donghan

Author_Institution

Center for Inf. & Telecommun. Stand., Korea Res. Inst. of Stand. & Sci., Daejeon

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

6-11 March 2005

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

39

Abstract

Discretely tunable single-mode erbium-doped fiber ring laser is fabricated with tuning range over 70 nm in C- and L-band utilizing a Fabry-Perot etalon and a saturable absorber. This matches to ITU-T 25-GHz frequency grid at 361 channels with excellent flatness

Keywords

Fabry-Perot interferometers; channel spacing; erbium; fibre lasers; laser tuning; masers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre fabrication; optical saturable absorption; ring lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 25 GHz; C-band; Er; Fabry-Perot etalon; ITU-T frequency grid; L-band; channel spacing; discretely tunable single-frequency ring laser; erbium-doped fiber laser; saturable absorber; Channel spacing; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical tuning; Optical variables control; Ring lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-783-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2005.192504

Filename

1497584