Title :
Single-frequency erbium fibre ring laser with intracavity phase-shifted fibre Bragg grating narrowband filter
Author :
Guy, M.J. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Kashyap, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
fDate :
10/26/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors report a single-frequency unidirectional erbium fibre ring laser operating at 1.55 μm which uses an intracavity phase-shifted fibre Bragg grating as an ultranarrow frequency bandpass filter. The linewidth of the laser was measured to be <2.0 kHz
Keywords :
band-pass filters; diffraction gratings; erbium; fibre lasers; laser transitions; optical filters; ring lasers; spectral line breadth; 1.55 micron; Er fibre ring laser; intracavity narrowband filter; linewidth; phase-shifted fibre Bragg grating; single-frequency ring laser; ultranarrow frequency bandpass filter; unidirectional ring laser;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19951297