Tunable laser based on a semiconductor optical amplifier of red spectral region

A tunable laser containing a recently developed travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) of the red spectral region as an active element and an acousto-optic tunable filter in an external fibre ring cavity is studied. Continuous wavelength tuning was achieved within a spectra band up to...

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Published inQuantum electronics (Woodbury, N.Y.) Vol. 49; no. 5; pp. 493 - 496
Main Authors Andreeva, E.V., Anikeev, A.S., Il'chenko, S.N., Lobintsov, A.A., Chamorovskii, A.Yu, Shidlovskii, V.R., Shramenko, M.V., Yakubovich, S.D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol Kvantovaya Elektronika, Turpion Ltd and IOP Publishing 01.06.2019
IOP Publishing
Subjects
acousto-optic tunable filter
Acousto-optics
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Continuous fibers
FIBERS
Laser applications
LASER CAVITIES
LASERS
Light amplifiers
LINE WIDTHS
OPTICS
Power amplifiers
SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
semiconductor optical amplifier
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Spectra
Traveling waves
TRAVELLING WAVES
Tunable filters
tunable laser
Tunable lasers
TUNING
WAVELENGTHS
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Summary:A tunable laser containing a recently developed travelling wave semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) of the red spectral region as an active element and an acousto-optic tunable filter in an external fibre ring cavity is studied. Continuous wavelength tuning was achieved within a spectra band up to 20 nm wide with a rate up to 104 nm s−1 at a spectral linewidth below 0.04 nm and a cw output power up to 2 mW. The use of one more similar SOA as an output power amplifier made it possible to increase the output power to 15 mW.
ISSN:1063-7818
1468-4799
DOI:10.1070/QEL16925