Title :
Electrically tunable, dual-wavelength actively mode-locked SOA-based fiber ring laser with superimposed fiber Bragg gratings
Author :
Chen, L.R. ; Azaña, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
We demonstrate a dual-wavelength, actively mode-locked SOA fiber ring laser with superimposed linearly chirped fiber Bragg gratings. The two wavelengths can be simultaneously tuned (with constant wavelength separation) by changing the modulation frequency.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; chirp modulation; fibre lasers; frequency modulation; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical modulation; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; chirped fiber Bragg gratings; electrical tuning; fiber ring laser; mode-locking; modulation frequency; semiconductor optical amplifier; Bragg gratings; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Frequency modulation; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Ring lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7888-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2003.1253173
