Single-frequency Ho3+-doped ZBLAN fiber laser at 1200 nm

Xiushan Zhu; Jie Zong; Andy Miller; Kort Wiersma; R. A. Norwood; Narasimha S. Prasad; Arturo Chavez-Pirson; N. Peyghambarian

doi:10.1364/OL.37.004185

Single-frequency Ho³⁺-doped ZBLAN fiber laser at 1200 nm

Xiushan Zhu, Jie Zong, Andy Miller, Kort Wiersma, R. A. Norwood, Narasimha S. Prasad, Arturo Chavez-Pirson, N. Peyghambarian

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A single-frequency (SF) fiber laser at 1200 nm was developed with a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) configuration by splicing a 22 mm long highly holmium-doped ZBLAN (ZrF₄-BaF₂-LaF₃-AlF ₃-NaF) fiber with a pair of silica fiber Bragg gratings. The linewidth was estimated to be less than 100 kHz based on the measured frequency noise. The relative intensity noise was measured to be <110 dB=Hz at the relaxation oscillation peak and the polarization extinction ratio was measured to be >19 dB. Our results highlight the exciting prospect that wavelength coverage of SF DBR fiber lasers can be expanded significantly by using rare-earth-doped ZBLAN fibers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4185-4187
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics letters
Volume	37
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.004185
State	Published - Oct 15 2012

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