Tunable Erbium Doped Fiber Laser Using a Silicon Micro-Electro-Mechanical Fabry-Perot Cavity

Author

Masson, J. ; Bergeron, S. ; Poulin, A. ; Godbout, N. ; Peter, Y.A.

Author_Institution

Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal

fYear

2007

fDate

Aug. 12 2007-July 16 2007

Firstpage

171

Lastpage

172

Abstract

We propose a novel tunable erbium doped fiber laser using a silicon micro-electro-mechanical (MEM) Fabry-Perot cavity. The cavity is made of two Bragg mirrors, one being actuated by comb drives. The MEM Fabry-Perot cavity and grooves for optical fibers are fabricated by DRIE on a 70 mum SOI wafer and integrated in a ring fiber laser configuration. The fiber laser has a tuning range of 7.7 nm in the C-band and a spectral width of 0.1 nm.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; laser tuning; micro-optomechanical devices; microcavities; microcavity lasers; silicon; Bragg mirrors; C-band; DRIE; JkJk:Er; MEMS Fabry-Perot cavity; SOI wafer; erbium doped fiber laser; laser tuning; ring fiber laser configuration; silicon microelectromechanical cavity; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot; Laser tuning; Mirrors; Optical fibers; Optical tuning; Ring lasers; Silicon; Tunable circuits and devices; Fabry-Perot cavity; Tunable fiber laser; silicon Bragg reflector;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, 2007 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hualien

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0641-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OMEMS.2007.4373895

Filename

4373895