Wide wavelength-tunable passive mode-locked Erbium-doped fiber laser with a SESAM

•A wide wavelength-tunable passive mode locked with a SESAM is presented.•The tunability was experimentally achieved in the range of 1543.2–1569.5 nm.•The cavity includes a Sagnac interferometer-based fiber optical loop mirror (FOLM) as a wide wavelength-tunable filter. In this work we present a sim...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Optics and laser technology 2021-02, Vol.134, p.106593, Article 106593
Main Authors: Armas-Rivera, I., Rodriguez-Morales, L.A., Durán-Sánchez, M., Avazpour, M., Carrascosa, A., Silvestre, E., Kuzin, E.A., Andrés, M.V., Ibarra-Escamilla, B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Doped fibers
Erbium
Fiber lasers
Fiber optics
Mode locking
Mode-locked fiber laser
Optical fibers
Pulse duration
SESAM
Solitons
Tunable filters
Tunable laser
Wave reflection
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:•A wide wavelength-tunable passive mode locked with a SESAM is presented.•The tunability was experimentally achieved in the range of 1543.2–1569.5 nm.•The cavity includes a Sagnac interferometer-based fiber optical loop mirror (FOLM) as a wide wavelength-tunable filter. In this work we present a simple polarization-maintaining wavelength-tunable passive mode-locked Erbium-doped fiber laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) as a mode locker. The cavity includes a Sagnac interferometer-based fiber optical loop mirror (FOLM) as a wide wavelength-tunable filter. Tunable mode-locking was experimentally achieved in the range of 1543.2 nm to 1569.5 nm by thermally adjustment of FOLM wavelength reflection. The output pulses have a repetition rate of 11.16 MHz with pulse duration about 0.9 ps. The experimental results were confirmed by numerical simulations.
ISSN:0030-3992
1879-2545
DOI:10.1016/j.optlastec.2020.106593