Tunable SESAM-based mode-locked soliton fiber laser in linear cavity by axial-strain applied to an FBG

A self-started stable tunablemode-locked soliton fiber laser in a linear cavity structure composed by commercial passive elements is presented in this paper. It is based on the combination of an erbium-doped fiber as the active medium, and a saturated fiber Bragg grating (FBG) as a partial mirror of...

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Autores: Aporta Litago, Iñaki|||0000-0002-2896-6371, Leandro Gonzalez, Daniel, Quintela Incera, María Ángeles|||0000-0002-6776-0325, Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana, López Amo, Manuel, López Higuera, José Miguel|||0000-0002-8615-8487
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositório:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/13432
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/13432
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Fiber Bragg gratings
Fiber nonlinear optics
Laser tuning
Mode locked lasers
Optical fiber lasers
Optical solitons
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Resumo:A self-started stable tunablemode-locked soliton fiber laser in a linear cavity structure composed by commercial passive elements is presented in this paper. It is based on the combination of an erbium-doped fiber as the active medium, and a saturated fiber Bragg grating (FBG) as a partial mirror of the cavity. The other side of the cavity consists of a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror acting also as the mode-locking device. The central wavelength of the FBG is selected by the application of axial strain giving rise to a tunable soliton over 8.6 nm on the C band with a variable spacing of 0.01 nm. The laser delivers 18.9 ps long pulses with a 0.14 nm bandwidth, an 8.2 MHz repetition rate, a pulse energy of 89 pJ, and a peak power of 4.71 W.