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All-fiber widely wavelength-tunable thulium-doped fiber ring laser incorporating a Fabry-Perot filter

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Abstract

We demonstrate 1940 to 2010 nm continuous CW wavelength-tuning in a thulium-doped fiber laser (TDFL), using only fiber-format components. A fiber Fabry-Perot (FP) tunable filter is employed to achieve the wavelength tunability of 70 nm. By imposing a 200 Hz triangle wave signal on the filter, rapid wavelength-sweeping is demonstrated from 1952 to 1992 nm every 5 ms, corresponding to 8 nm/ms. This all-fiber wavelength-tunable and swept laser may find applications such as gas monitoring in the wavelength region of 2 μm.

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  1. College of Communication Engineering and Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310000, China

    Y. Wei & T. Wang

  2. Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Y. Wei, K. Hu & B. Sun

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Wei, Y., Hu, K., Sun, B. et al. All-fiber widely wavelength-tunable thulium-doped fiber ring laser incorporating a Fabry-Perot filter. Laser Phys. 22, 770–773 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X12040263

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