Open AccessStable room-temperature multi-wavelength lasing realization in ordinary erbium-doped fiber loop lasers
Author(s) -
Yange Liu,
Xuelin Dong,
Perry Ping Shum,
Shuzhong Yuan,
Guiyun Kai,
Xinyong Dong
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.14.009293
Subject(s) - lasing threshold , materials science , optics , wavelength , laser , fiber laser , optoelectronics , gain switching , erbium , doping , physics
A suppressant effect for mode competition of multi-wavelength lasing oscillations induced by deeply saturated effect in an ordinary erbium-doped fiber ring laser (EDFRL) was observed and experimentally investigated. Results show that the effect is helpful to obtain stable multi-wavelength lasing at room temperature in the EDFRL, which offers a new and simple approach to achieve stable multi-wavelength EDF lasing. Stable two- and three- wavelength lasing oscillations were achieved based on the effect in the ordinary EDFRL for the first time to our best knowledge. The multi-wavelength lasing oscillations were so stable integrated over smaller than 1 ms that the maximum power fluctuation over more than 30 minutes of observation was less than 0.1 dB and 0.5 dB for two-wavelength lasing with a spacing of 1.28 nm and 0.76 nm, respectively.