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Widely tunable chaotic fiber laser for WDM-PON detection

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A widely tunable high precision chaotic fiber laser is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A tunable fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) filter is used as a tuning element to determine the turning range from 1533 nm to 1558 nm with a linewidth of 0.5 nm at any wavelength. The wide tuning range is capable of supporting 32 wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) channels with 100 GHz channel spacing. All single wavelengths are found to be chaotic with 10 GHz bandwidth. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the chaotic correlation curve of the different wavelengths is on a picosecond time scale, thereby offering millimeter spatial resolution in WDM detection.

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  1. Institute of Optoelectronic Engineering, College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Juan Zhang  (张娟), Ling-zhen Yang  (杨玲珍), Nai-jun Xu  (徐乃军), Juan-fen Wang  (王娟芬), Zhao-xia Zhang  (张朝霞) & Xiang-lian Liu  (刘香莲)

  2. Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Ling-zhen Yang  (杨玲珍)

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This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61107033), the Program for the Top Young Academic Leaders of Higher Learning Institutions of Shanxi, and the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.SKLST201103).

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Zhang, J., Yang, Lz., Xu, Nj. et al. Widely tunable chaotic fiber laser for WDM-PON detection. Optoelectron. Lett. 10, 232–236 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-014-4014-x

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