TONG Zheng-rong,LIU Meng-ying,CAO Ye,ZHANG Wei-hua,HAO Xia.Switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with tunable wavelength[J].Optoelectronics Letters,2015,11(5):325-328
Switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with tunable wavelength
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TONG Zheng-rong Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China 
LIU Meng-ying Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China 
CAO Ye Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China 
ZHANG Wei-hua Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China 
HAO Xia Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China 
Abstract:
      A switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) with tunable wavelength is demonstrated. The ring cavity consists of two branches with a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and a spherical-shape structure as fiber filters, respectively. By adjusting the variable optical attenuator (VOA), the laser can be switched between the single-wavelength mode and the dual-wavelength mode. The spherical-shape structure has good sensitivity to the temperature. When the temperature changes from 30 °C to 190 °C, the central wavelength of the EDFL generated by the branch of spherical-shape structure varies from 1 551.6 nm to 1 561.8 nm, which means that the wavelength interval is tunable.
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This work has been supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No.2013AA014201), and the Tianjin Youth Science Foundation (No.13JCQNJC01800).
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