• Optoelectronics Letters
  • Vol. 11, Issue 5, 325 (2015)
Zheng-rong TONG*, Meng-ying LIU, Ye CAO, Wei-hua ZHANG, and Xia HAO
Author Affiliations
  • Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s11801-015-5109-8 Cite this Article
    TONG Zheng-rong, LIU Meng-ying, CAO Ye, ZHANG Wei-hua, HAO Xia. Switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with tunable wavelength[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2015, 11(5): 325 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) with tunable wavelength is demonstrated. The ring cavity consists of two branches with a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) and a spherical-shape structure as fiber filters, respectively. By adjusting the variable optical attenuator (VOA), the laser can be switched between the single- wavelength mode and the dual-wavelength mode. The spherical-shape structure has good sensitivity to the temperature. When the temperature changes from 30 °C to 190 °C, the central wavelength of the EDFL generated by the branch of spherical-shape structure varies from 1 551.6 nm to 1 561.8 nm, which means that the wavelength interval is tunable.
    TONG Zheng-rong, LIU Meng-ying, CAO Ye, ZHANG Wei-hua, HAO Xia. Switchable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with tunable wavelength[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2015, 11(5): 325
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