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A switchable and tunable ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser (YDFL) is reported and demonstrated. Employing a Sagnac loop mirror fabricated by an 85-cm-long polarization-maintaining fiber (PMF), the proposed YDFL can operate with stable dual-wavelength lasing or tunable single-wavelength lasing around 1 064 nm. Both stable dual-wavelength lasing and tunable single-wavelength lasing are achieved by adjusting a polarization controller in the Sagnac loop mirror. The experimental results show that the output of the proposed fiber laser with two different operation modes is rather stable at room temperature.
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This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61007029), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No.2013AA031501), the Projects of Zhejiang Province in China (No.2010R50007), and the Program for Science and Technology Innovative Research Team in Zhejiang Normal University.
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Wang, Xl., Chen, Dr., Ma, Xw. et al. A switchable and tunable ytterbium-doped fiber ring laser with a Sagnac loop mirror. Optoelectron. Lett. 12, 261–263 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-016-6035-0
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