Transform-limited, injection seeded, Q-switched, ring cavity fiber laser

Renjie Zhou; Wei Shi; Eliot Petersen; Arturo Chavez-Pirson; Mark Stephen; Nasser Peyghambarian

doi:10.1109/JLT.2012.2201446

Transform-limited, injection seeded, Q-switched, ring cavity fiber laser

Renjie Zhou, Wei Shi, Eliot Petersen, Arturo Chavez-Pirson, Mark Stephen, Nasser Peyghambarian

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Abstract

We report an Er-doped, actively Q-switched, fiber laser, generating transform-limited pulses based on single-frequency fiber laser seeded ring cavity. The output pulsewidth can be tuned from hundreds of nanoseconds to several microseconds by changing the repetition rate or the open time of the electrical pulse trigger. This injection-seeded, Q-switched ring cavity fiber laser can be operated over the whole C-band. In addition, a theoretical model is developed to numerically study the pulse characteristics by changing the acousto-optic modulator transmission as well as several cavity parameters, such as the cavity length and loss. The numerical results are in good agreement with the experimental results.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6210339
Pages (from-to)	2589-2595
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	30
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2012.2201446
State	Published - 2012

Keywords

Erbium lasers
Q-switched laser
fiber lasers
tunable lasers

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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