A tunable mode-locked erbium-doped fibre laser using a Lyot-type tuner integrated in lithium niobate

In this paper we report the realization of a tunable erbium-doped fibre laser. The intracavity tuner is a filter composed of two cascaded unbalanced Mach–Zehnder interferometers, integrated in a single chip of lithium niobate. Wavelength tuning is achieved electro-optically over a range of 17 nm aro...

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Published in:	Optics communications Vol. 185; no. 4; pp. 375 - 380
Main Authors:	Rejeaunier, X., Calvez, S., Mollier, P., Porte, H., Goedgebuer, J.P.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 15-11-2000 Elsevier Science
Subjects:	Erbium-doped fibre laser Exact sciences and technology Fiber lasers Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications) Lasers Lithium niobate modulator Mach–Zehnder interferometer Optics Physics Tunable laser Mach–Zehnder interferometer Erbium-doped fibre laser Tunable laser Lithium niobate modulator Mach-Zehnder interferometers Phase modulation Tunable lasers Mode locked laser Doped materials Experimental study Electro-optical filters Erbium additions Fiber lasers
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Summary:	In this paper we report the realization of a tunable erbium-doped fibre laser. The intracavity tuner is a filter composed of two cascaded unbalanced Mach–Zehnder interferometers, integrated in a single chip of lithium niobate. Wavelength tuning is achieved electro-optically over a range of 17 nm around 1540 nm. A phase modulator integrated in the same chip allows the tunable laser to operate in a mode-locked regime.
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ISSN:	0030-4018 1873-0310
DOI:	10.1016/S0030-4018(00)00991-3