Power efficient tunable fiber grating laser

Author

Chung, W.H. ; Tam, H.Y. ; Demokan, M.S. ; Man, W.S. ; Liu, S.Y. ; Chong, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., China

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

64

Abstract

We have experimentally demonstrated that a fibre grating laser which can be repeatedly tuned within a range of 12nm by applying up to 61W electrical power to a platinum-coated output coupling fibre Bragg grating. This tuning technique demonstrates the feasibility of a compact and power efficient tunable source which is suitable for use in multi-channel DWDM systems. In addition, we also illustrated that the natural convection process must be considered when designing this type of tunable devices

Keywords

Bragg gratings; erbium; laser tuning; metallic thin films; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre cladding; platinum; ring lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 61 W; Er-doped ring fibre lasers; Pt; electrical power; multi-channel DWDM systems; natural convection process; platinum-coated output coupling fibre Bragg grating; power efficient tunable fiber grating laser; repeatedly tuned; Bragg gratings; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Optical tuning; Power lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.969174

Filename

969174