Chinese Optics Letters, 2004, 2 (4): 04223, Published Online: Jun. 6, 2006
Single-frequency, single-polarization ytterbium-doped fiber laser by self-injection locking Download: 1310次
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Abstract
We demonstrated a stable single-frequency, single-polarization operation of ytterbium-doped fiber laser. As a novel practical method to realize single-polarization operation of fiber distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser, we proposed self-injection locking (SIL) with an active fiber ring feedback cavity. The laser has high output power exceeding 15 mW, wavelength of 1053.20 nm, and side-mode suppression ratio greater than 60 dB. The SIL fiber laser shows the improvements in output power and side-mode suppression compared with the fiber DBR laser. No mode-hopping is observed within 2 hours.
Anting Wang, Hai Ming, Feng Li, Lixin Xu, Liang Lv, Huaqiao Gui, Jing Huang, Jianping Xie. Single-frequency, single-polarization ytterbium-doped fiber laser by self-injection locking[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2004, 2(4): 04223.