Long term stability of a long intra-cavity saturable absorber external cavity semiconductor laser

Author

Wahbeh, Mamoun ; Kashyap, Rekha ; Wen-Yi Lin ; Po-Yi Wu ; Hai-Han Lu ; Seregelyi, Joe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Fabulas Lab. & PolyGrames, Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

6-9 July 2013

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

96

Abstract

A single-mode, ultra-stable, free-running laser based on an external cavity laser with a saturable absorber is presented. We report for the first time the use of external cavity of fully erbium-doped fiber, where the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and the hyperbolic lens are directly formed on the doped fiber. Thus, the best scenario for dynamic grating performance, initiated via the inband-pumping along the entire cavity can be reached and the high stability of this laser is reported.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; erbium; laser stability; optical modulation; refractive index; semiconductor lasers; dynamic grating performance; erbium doped fiber; fiber Bragg grating; free running laser; hyperbolic lens; inband pumping; long intracavity saturable absorber external cavity semiconductor laser; long term stability; single mode laser; ultra stable laser; Cavity resonators; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Laser stability; Optical fiber polarization; Semiconductor lasers; Dynamic grating; Erbium doped fiber; external cavity laser; narrow-linewidth laser; single-mode laser; ultra-stable laser;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Infocomm Technology (ICAIT), 2013 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0464-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAIT.2013.6621514

Filename

6621514