The characteristics of dynamic gratings in ultra-narrow linewidth erbium-doped fiber ring lasers

Pan Xu; Zhengliang Hu; Yongming Hu; Mingxiang Ma; Lina Ma

doi:10.1117/12.907171

5 December 2011 The characteristics of dynamic gratings in ultra-narrow linewidth erbium-doped fiber ring lasers

Pan Xu, Zhengliang Hu, Yongming Hu, Mingxiang Ma, Lina Ma

Proceedings Volume 8198, 2011 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Devices and Integration; 81980T (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907171
Event: International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology (OIT2011), 2011, Beijing, Beijing, China

Abstract

The characteristics of dynamic gratings greatly affect the linewidth and mode hopping properties of ultra-narrow linewidth erbium-doped fiber lasers. In this paper, we propose a novel method to estimate the temporal evolution of the reflectance spectrum of the dynamic gratings recorded in EDF based on the transient effect of the erbium ions. An experimental setup is also proposed to measure the reflectivity spectrum of the dynamic gratings utilized in lasers. The experimental data are compared with the numerical results and their differences are analyzed. The experiment results reveal some important transient characteristics of dynamic gratings in real lasers which are helpful to understand the mechanism of mode hopping.

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Pan Xu, Zhengliang Hu, Yongming Hu, Mingxiang Ma, and Lina Ma "The characteristics of dynamic gratings in ultra-narrow linewidth erbium-doped fiber ring lasers", Proc. SPIE 8198, 2011 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Devices and Integration, 81980T (5 December 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907171

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