Whispering Gallery Mode microresonator stabilized fiber loop laser

Author

Sprenger, B. ; Schwefel, H.G.L. ; Wang, L.J.

Author_Institution

Max Planck Inst. for the Sci. of Light, Erlangen, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The authors have successfully stabilized an erbium-doped fiber loop laser with an improvement of more than two orders of magnitude by incorporating a WGM microresonator. Microspheres with Q-values of 108 inside a lasing cavity can allow linewidths on the order of hundreds of kHz. The exact values will be determined using heterodyne beating with an external laser, as well as self-heterodyne beating using a long fiber-spool.

Keywords

erbium; laser cavity resonators; microcavities; micromechanical resonators; optical fibre amplifiers; whispering gallery modes; Jk:Er; Q-values; erbium-doped fiber loop laser; external laser; lasing cavity; microresonator; microspheres; self-heterodyne beating; whispering gallery mode; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Laser stability; Laser theory; Microcavities; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fibers; Optical resonators; Whispering gallery modes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192918

Filename

5192918