Shien-Kuei Liaw
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Title: Design and implementation of Er/Yb co-doped fiber lasers
Biography
Biography: Shien-Kuei Liaw
Abstract
In this talk, several types of single-longitudinal mode (SLM) linear cavity tunable fiber lasers will be reviewed and discussed. Integrating a partial reflectance fiber Bragg grating (FBG) as the front cavity end, the rear cavity end elements may be a loopback optical circulator (OC), a broadband fiber mirror, a Faraday rotator mirror or a 2x2 fiber coupler. For SLM selection, using multiple subring cavities based on the Vernier effect, a piece of gain fiber saturable absorber as modes filter or their hybrid type. For wide-tuning range fiber laser, the wavelength tuning mechanism may be tunable FBGs, a 3-point bending device or a four-lamina composite device to facilitate wavelength tuning of FBGs, a large tuning range cover C+L band with good resolution of 0.1 nm was achieved. Laser characteristics such as output power, optical signal-to-noise ratio, laser linewidth, threshold pump power and pumping slope efficiency are measured. An example characteristic of 1 MHz, 59 dB, 13% and 0.1 dB for linewidth, side-mode suppression ratio, quantum efficiency and power variation of whole tuning range, respectively, are obtained. The pumping power efficiency may be 10% improved by recycling the residual pump power to the gain medium and has the advantages of simple structure, large pump slope efficiency and short cavity. The proposed fiber lasers may find various potential applications