• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 7, Issue 2, 103 (2019)
Jianfeng Li1、*, Yazhou Wang1, Hongyu Luo1, Yong Liu1, Zhijun Yan2、4, Zhongyuan Sun3, and Lin Zhang3、5
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  • 2School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 3Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT), Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
  • 4e-mail: yanzhijin@gmail.com
  • 5e-mail: l.zhang@aston.ac.uk
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.7.000103 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jianfeng Li, Yazhou Wang, Hongyu Luo, Yong Liu, Zhijun Yan, Zhongyuan Sun, Lin Zhang. Kelly sideband suppression and wavelength tuning of a conventional soliton in a Tm-doped hybrid mode-locked fiber laser with an all-fiber Lyot filter[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(2): 103 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We demonstrate a stable conventional soliton in a Tm-doped hybrid mode-locked fiber laser by employing a homemade all-fiber Lyot filter (AFLF) and a single-wall carbon nanotube. The AFLF, designed by sandwiching a piece of polarization-maintained fiber (PMF) with two 45° tilted fiber gratings inscribed by a UV laser in PMF with a phase-mask scanning technique, shows large filter depth of 9 dB and small insertion loss of 0.8 dB. By optimizing the free spectral range of the AFLF, the Kelly sidebands of a conventional soliton centered at 1966.4 nm can be dramatically suppressed without impairing the main shape of the soliton spectrum. It gives the pulse duration of 1.18 ps and bandwidth of 3.8 nm. By adjusting the temperature of the PMF of the AFLF from 7°C to 60°C, wavelength tunable soliton pulses ranging from 1971.62 nm to 1952.63 nm are also obtained. The generated soliton pulses can be precisely tuned between 1971.62 nm and 1952.63 nm by controlling the temperature of the AFLF.
    M=[sin2βcosβsinβsinβcosβcos2β][eiΔφcos2α+sin2α(eiΔφ1)cosαsinα(eiΔφ1)cosαsinαeiΔφsin2α+cos2α][0001][11],(1)

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    T=cos2(2α+β)+cos2(Δφ/2)sin2αsin2(α+β),(2)

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    Δφ=2πLPMΔnλ,(3)

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    Tmax=Max[cos2β,cos2(2α+β)],Tmin=Max[cos2β,cos2(2α+β)].(4)

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    T=cos2(Δφ/2).(5)

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    λmaxm=LPMΔnm,λminm=2LPMΔn2m+1,(6)

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    FSRλ2LPMΔn.(7)

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    dλminm=LheatingλminmLPM(dLheatingLheatingdT+dΔnΔndT)ΔT,(8)

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    Jianfeng Li, Yazhou Wang, Hongyu Luo, Yong Liu, Zhijun Yan, Zhongyuan Sun, Lin Zhang. Kelly sideband suppression and wavelength tuning of a conventional soliton in a Tm-doped hybrid mode-locked fiber laser with an all-fiber Lyot filter[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(2): 103
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