Li Ming, Chen Xuxing, Fujii Takeo, Kudo Yoshitaka, Li Hongpu, Painchaud Yves
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shizuoka University, Johoku 3-5-1, Hamamatsu 432-8561, Japan.
Opt Lett. 2009 Jun 1;34(11):1717-9. doi: 10.1364/ol.34.001717.
A semiconductor-optical-amplifier-based fiber laser incorporating with a phase-shifted phase-only sampled fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Thanks to the intrinsic property of the phase-shifted phase-only sampled FBG, the proposed approach has an unique advantage, enabling one to tune and switch all the wavelength lasing simultaneously. The obtained fiber laser has a stable output with more than 30 wavelengths lasing. The 3 dB linewidth is approximately 13 pm, the signal-to-noise ratio is larger than 50 dB, and the nonuniformity of the output is smaller than 7.4 dB.
