Wavelength-switchable La-codoped bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber ring laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 986-988

  Liu, H L ^a   Tam, H Y ^a   Chung, W H ^a   Wai, P K A ^b   Sugimoto, Naoki ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Department of Electronics and Information Engineering ^*  (Hong Kong)

^c ASAHI GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical fiber laser; Ring laser

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIREFRINGENCE; ETALONS; FIBER LASERS; INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PUMPING (LASER); SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER; OPTICAL SPECTRUM ANALYZER; PROGRAMMABLE POLARIZATION CONTROLLER; WAVELENGTH SWITCHABLE LASER;

RING LASERS;

EID: 18944367059     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.846739     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Q. Mao and W. Y. L. John, "Switchable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with cascaded fiber grating cavities," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 612-614, May 2002.
2. J. Hernandez-Cordero, V. A. Kozlov, A. L. G. Carter, and T. F. Morse, "Fiber laser polarization tuning using a bragg grating in a Hi-Bi fiber," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 941-943, Jul. 1998.
3. Y. W. Lee and B. Lee, "Wavelength-Switchable erbium-doped fiber ring laser using spectral polarization-dependent loss element," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 795-797, Jun. 2003.
4. G. Das and W. Y. L. John, "Wavelength switching of a fiber laser with a Sagnac loop reflector," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 60-62, Jan. 2004.
5. X. Dong, P. Shum, N. Q. Ngo, C. C. Chan, B. O. Guan, and H. Y. Tam, "Effect of active fiber length on the tunablility of erbium-doped fiber ring lasers," Opt. Express, vol. 11, no. 26, pp. 3622-3627, Dec. 2003.
6. N. Sugimoto, "Ultrafast optical switches and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) amplifiers based on Bismuth oxide glasses," J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., vol. 85, no. 5, pp. 1083-1088, May 2002.
7. X. Dong, N. Q. Ngo, P. Shum, B. O. Guan, H. Y. Tam, and X. Dong, "Concentration-induced nonuniform power in tunable erbium-doped fiber lasers," Opt. Lett., vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 358-360, Feb. 2004.