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We report the fabrication of a discretely tunable erbium-doped fiber ring laser with a novel scheme that can select ITU-T grids of 50-GHz spacing in both C and L bands. Wavelength selections of 273 channels are demonstrated with a signal to source spontaneous emission ratio of 60 dB/nm and excellent power flatness over 111-nm bandwidth. This was realized by incorporating both a solid Fabry–Pérot interferometer and a fiber Fabry–Pérot tunable filter into the ring laser. To our knowledge, our experimental result has the widest tuning range ever reported for a discretely tunable fiber laser with 50-GHz channel spacing that matches the ITU-T grids and is the first equipment that can operate in both C and L bands.
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Ryu, H., Lee, D., Park, KD. et al. Discretely tunable erbium-doped fiber ring laser selecting ITU-T grids of 273 channels × 50-GHz spacing in C- and L-band regions. Appl Phys B 79, 583–586 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1609-0
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