An All-fiber 2-μm wavelength-tunable mode-locked laser

Qiang Fang; Khanh Kieu; Nasser Peyghambarian

doi:10.1109/LPT.2010.2077736

An All-fiber 2-μm wavelength-tunable mode-locked laser

Qiang Fang, Khanh Kieu, Nasser Peyghambarian

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Abstract

We report an all-fiber thulium-doped wavelength-tunable mode-locked laser operating near 2 μm. Reliable self-starting mode locking over a large tuning range (>50 nm) using a fiber-taper-based carbon nanotube saturable absorber is observed. Spectral tuning is achieved by stretching another fiber taper. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of an all-fiber wavelength tunable mode-locked laser near 2 μm.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5582205
Pages (from-to)	1656-1658
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	22
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2010.2077736
State	Published - 2010

Keywords

Midinfrared
mode-locking
saturable absorber (SA)
tunable

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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