Title :
Recent progress on 2-micron fiber lasers
Author_Institution :
AdValue Photonics Inc., Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract :
Highly Tm-doped silicate glasses and fibers were developed, which exhibit a high slope efficiency of 68.3% and a gain per unit length of greater than 2dB/cm. Single frequency fiber lasers with laser linewidth less than 3kHz, Q-switched single frequency fiber lasers, and mode-locked fiber lasers near 2 micron wavelength were demonstrated using this newly developed fiber.
Keywords :
Q-switching; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical glass; silicon compounds; thulium; Q-switched lasers; SiO2:Tm; Tm-doped silicate fibers; Tm-doped silicate glasses; laser linewidth; mode-locked fiber lasers; single frequency fiber lasers; wavelength 2 micron; Fiber lasers; Glass; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
