Ultra-wideband Operation of a Tunable Thulium Fibre Laser offering Tunability from 1679–1992 nm
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Chen, Shaoxiang; Jung, Yongmin; Alam, S. U.; Wang, Junjia; Sidharthan, R.; Ho, Daryl; Jain, S.; Yoo, Seongwoo; Richardson, D. J.
- Source
- 2017 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2017 European Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2017
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical fibers
Fiber lasers
Laser tuning
Cavity resonators
Wavelength measurement
Thulium
- Language
We demonstrate a tuneable thulium-doped fibre laser incorporating in-house fabricated Tm/Ge co-doped fibre capable of accessing the sub 1700nm wavelength band. An ultra-wide operating bandwidth of over 310nm is realized using an external cavity grating.