Generation of wavelength-switched optical pulse from a fiber ring laser with an F-P semiconductor modulator and a HiBi fiber loop mirror

Author

Shiquan, Yang ; Zhaohui, Li ; Xiaoyi, Dong ; Shuzhong, Yuan ; Guiyun, Kai ; Qida, Zhao

Author_Institution

Inst. of Modern Opt., Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China

Volume

14

Issue

6

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

774

Lastpage

776

Abstract

A simple configuration to perform wavelength switching in an actively mode-locked fiber ring laser is demonstrated. A Fabry-Perot laser diode was used as a modulator and a HiBi fiber loop mirror was used as a periodic multichannel wavelength filter in the cavity. By setting the channel spacing of nm can be achieved by tuning the fiber loop mirror filter. In the wavelength-switched process, the modulation frequency was not required to be changed.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; electro-optical modulation; electro-optical switches; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical fibre filters; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; F-P semiconductor modulator; Fabry-Perot laser diode; HiBi fiber loop mirror; actively mode-locked fiber ring laser; cavity; channel; fiber ring laser; modulation frequency; periodic multichannel wavelength filter; tuning; wavelength-switched optical pulse generation; wavelength-switched process; Diode lasers; Fabry-Perot; Fiber lasers; Filters; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.1003089

Filename

1003089