Title :
Widely tunable erbium-doped fiber ring laser over 80 nm
Author :
Yamashita, Shinji ; Nishihara, Masato
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Frontier Inf., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We propose and demonstrate a widely wavelength tunable EDF ring laser utilizing a long EDF. The wavelength tunable range over 80 nm (1520 nm-1600 nm) has been achieved by using an intracavity fiber Fabry-Perot filter.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; erbium; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical fibre communication; optical fibre filters; optical transmitters; ring lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1520 to 1600 nm; Er-doped fiber ring laser; WDM systems; communication systems; high-power broadband wavelength-tunable laser; intracavity fiber Fabry-Perot filter; laser tuning; long Er-doped fiber; ring laser; wavelength division multiplexed network; wavelength tunable range; widely tunable fiber ring laser; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot; Filters; Optical fiber polarization; Power generation; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Voltage; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference
Conference_Location :
Beijing, China
Print_ISBN :
7-5635-0402-8
DOI :
10.1109/APCC.1999.820568
