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A widely tunable fiber ring laser with closed loop control based on high-precision stepper motor

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A tunable single-longitudinal mode erbium-doped fiber ring laser based on stepper motor and closed loop control is proposed and demonstrated. The system consists of an erbium-doped fiber (EDF), a tunable fiber Bragg grating (FBG) filter and a wavelength detector. The characteristics of output laser, such as output power, power stability and 3-dB linewidth, are investigated in the operation range of 1 531—1 569 nm. The repeated experimental results of the fiber laser show that the 3-dB linewidth is less than 17 ps, the side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) is up to 60 dB, the output power is up to 1.37 dBm, and the power variation is less than 0.61 dB.

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  1. School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China

    Li-li Wang  (王丽丽)

  2. School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts &Telecommunication, Beijing, 100876, China

    Xiang-jun Xin  (忻向军)

  3. School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China

    Lin-wei Zhu  (朱林伟)

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This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61205014), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No.ZR2012FL21), the Science & Technology Development Program of Shandong Province (No.2011YD01078), the Project of Shandong Provincial Higher Educational Science and Technology Program of China (No.J12LJ02), the Precision Instruments Upgrading Project Fund of Shandong Province (No.2012SJGZ06), and the Doctoral Foundation of Shandong Province (No.BS2012DX006).

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Wang, Ll., Xin, Xj. & Zhu, Lw. A widely tunable fiber ring laser with closed loop control based on high-precision stepper motor. Optoelectron. Lett. 12, 169–172 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-016-6033-2

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