中国物理B ›› 2013, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (10): 104205-104205.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/22/10/104205

• ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS • 上一篇    下一篇

An all-polarization-maintaining repetition-tunable erbium-doped passively mode-locked fiber laser

赵光贞a, 肖晓晟a, 孟飞b, 梅佳伟a, 杨昌喜a   

  1. a State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    b Division of Time and Frequency Metrology, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100013, China
  • 收稿日期:2012-11-30 修回日期:2013-01-23 出版日期:2013-08-30 发布日期:2013-08-30

An all-polarization-maintaining repetition-tunable erbium-doped passively mode-locked fiber laser

Zhao Guang-Zhen (赵光贞)a, Xiao Xiao-Sheng (肖晓晟)a, Meng Fei (孟飞)b, Mei Jia-Wei (梅佳伟)a, Yang Chang-Xi (杨昌喜)a   

  1. a State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    b Division of Time and Frequency Metrology, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing 100013, China
  • Received:2012-11-30 Revised:2013-01-23 Online:2013-08-30 Published:2013-08-30
  • Contact: Yang Chang-Xi E-mail:cxyang@tsinghua.edu.cn

摘要: An environmentally stable, repetition rate tunable, all-polarization-maintaining, Er-doped pulse fiber laser with a single-wall carbon nanotubes saturated absorber is demonstrated. The ring laser cavity includes a delay line enabling a tunable repetition rate to vary from 35.52 MHz to 35.64 MHz with continuous mode-locked operation. The laser output parameters confirm that the tunable mode-locked operations are stable. High environmental stability is also confirmed by the-130 dBc/Hz low phase noise, a 70-dB signal-to-noise ratio of radio frequency signals, a low amplitude fluctuation of 5.76×10-4, and a low fluctuation of repetition rate of 12 Hz. The laser shows a high degree of polarization of 93%.

关键词: fiber laser, modulation, tuning and mode locking, nanotubes

Abstract: An environmentally stable, repetition rate tunable, all-polarization-maintaining, Er-doped pulse fiber laser with a single-wall carbon nanotubes saturated absorber is demonstrated. The ring laser cavity includes a delay line enabling a tunable repetition rate to vary from 35.52 MHz to 35.64 MHz with continuous mode-locked operation. The laser output parameters confirm that the tunable mode-locked operations are stable. High environmental stability is also confirmed by the-130 dBc/Hz low phase noise, a 70-dB signal-to-noise ratio of radio frequency signals, a low amplitude fluctuation of 5.76×10-4, and a low fluctuation of repetition rate of 12 Hz. The laser shows a high degree of polarization of 93%.

Key words: fiber laser, modulation, tuning and mode locking, nanotubes

中图分类号:  (Fiber lasers)

  • 42.55.Wd
42.60.Fc (Modulation, tuning, and mode locking) 61.46.Fg (Nanotubes)