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High stable single-polarization tunable fiber laser based on Opto-DMD processor and polarization-maintaining fiber devices

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A high stable wavelength-tunable fiber laser is experimentally demonstrated by using a digital-micromirror-device (DMD) processor and a polarization-maintaining erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA).The electronic-addressed DMD processor is able to select and couple a waveband from of the polarization-maintaining EDFA back into the fiber ring to generate a narrow line-width laser output. The tunable fiber laser shows a line-width of 0.02 nm, a tuning step of 0.08 nm over the c-band and a side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) greater than 50 dB. The output power uniformity of 0.01 mW is achieved by using the automatic power control (APC) system under room temperature. The center wavelength fluctuation during 1 h is below 0.01 nm.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.O. Box72 (BUPT), Beijing, 100876, China

    Kuizhi Huang, Binbin Yan, Kuiru Wang, Feijun Song & Xinzhu Sang

  2. College of Science, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, China

    Xiao Chen, Qi Ai, Yiquan Wang, Ying Zhang & Feijun Song

  3. School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China

    Gengxiang Chen

  4. Photonics Research Centre, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin 8, Ireland

    Qiang Wu

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Huang, K., Yan, B., Chen, X. et al. High stable single-polarization tunable fiber laser based on Opto-DMD processor and polarization-maintaining fiber devices. Laser Phys. 22, 1833–1836 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X12120146

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