Hybrid optical spectral bistability in fiber Michelson interferometer by use of a tunable fiber laser

Author

Lv, Guohui ; Ye, Hongan ; Li, Junqing ; Sun, Xiudong ; Zhang, Xinming

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Harbin Inst. of Technol., China

Volume

17

Issue

5

fYear

2005

fDate

5/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1061

Lastpage

1063

Abstract

We report the observation of hybrid optical spectral bistability in an unbalanced fiber Michelson interferometer by use of an electrooptically tuned continuous-wave fiber laser in which a fiber Bragg grating is employed to constitute a tunable resonant cavity. The potential applications of such a device as a wavelength shift monitor or a fiber-optic sensor working in digital type are also discussed.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Michelson interferometers; band-pass filters; electro-optical effects; fibre lasers; fibre optic sensors; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; optical bistability; optical fibres; optical filters; electrooptically tuned continuous-wave fiber laser; fiber Bragg grating; fiber Michelson interferometer; fiber-optic sensor; hybrid optical spectral bistability; tunable resonant cavity; wavelength shift monitor; Fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Lasers and electrooptics; Optical bistability; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber sensors; Optical interferometry; Optical sensors; Resonance; Tunable circuits and devices; Fiber-optic sensor of digital type; hybrid optical spectral bistability; tunable fiber laser; wavelength shift monitor;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.845706

Filename

1424100