Single-frequency Bismuth-doped fiber laser with quasi-continuous self-sweeping

Single-frequency Bismuth-doped fiber laser with quasi-continuous self-sweeping

Generation of regular pulses of linearly polarized radiation with periodic self-induced laser line sweeping by ~10 nm near central wavelength of ~1460 nm has been demonstrated for the first time in an all-fiber Bismuth laser without any tuning element. It has been shown that the radiation of each pu...

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Published in:Optics express Vol. 23; no. 19; pp. 24833 - 24842
Main Authors: Lobach, Ivan A, Kablukov, Sergey I, Melkumov, Mikhail A, Khopin, Vladimir F, Babin, Sergey A, Dianov, Evgeny M
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 21-09-2015
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Summary:Generation of regular pulses of linearly polarized radiation with periodic self-induced laser line sweeping by ~10 nm near central wavelength of ~1460 nm has been demonstrated for the first time in an all-fiber Bismuth laser without any tuning element. It has been shown that the radiation of each pulse is single-frequency, and the pulse-to-pulse frequency shift is as low as 1 MHz corresponding to one intermode interval in 100-m long laser cavity. The measured intra-pulse frequency chirp is below 1 MHz while the pulses are long (~10 μs) and overlapping. Thus the sweeping is nearly continuous in frequency and time domains.
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ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.23.024833