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Erbium-doped Fiber Lasers

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2018) | Viewed by 19516

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Dr. Christian Cuadrado-Laborde

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1. Temporary address, Applied Physics Departament, ICMUV, University of Valencia, Dr. Moliner 50, 46110 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
2. Permanent Address 1, Institute of Physics Rosario (IFIR-CONICET), Blvr. 27 de Febrero 210bis, Rosario 2000, Argentina
3. Permanent Address 2, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), Facultad de Química e Ingeniería, Av. Pellegrini 3314, Rosario 2000, Argentina
Interests: photonic signal processing; fractional operations; applications of fiber optics; fiber lasers; mode-locking
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Dear Colleagues:

It is a great pleasure, and an honor, to present this Special Issue, “Erbium-doped Fiber Lasers” of MDPI’s open access journal Applied Sciences. This is a special feature issue to present recent advances in fiber lasers, and future prospects of this key, fundamental, research area. All interested authors are invited to submit their newest results on fiber lasers whose medium gain is an erbium-doped fiber, for possible publication in this Special Issue of the journal of Applied Sciences. All papers need to present original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review processes of this journal (including the usual fees). There is a possibility to accept a few review papers, prospective authors are encouraged to submit their review proposals. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Active, passive and hybrid mode-locking
  • New mode-locking mechanisms in both passive and active schemes
  • Q-switching
  • Raman lasers
  • Ultrafast and soliton fiber laser sources
  • Dissipative Soliton Resonance
  • Photonic crystal fiber based lasers
  • Fiber lasers based on novel geometries
  • Power scaling of continuous-wave and pulsed fiber lasers
  • Design and modelling of fiber lasers

Dr. Christian Cuadrado-Laborde
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • fiber laser
  • erbium-doped
  • fiber optics
  • pulses lasers
  • mode-locking
  • Q-switching

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Article
Tunable and Switchable Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using a Multimode-Fiber Based Filter
by Anum Khattak, Gerard Tatel and Li Wei
Appl. Sci. 2018, 8(7), 1135; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app8071135 - 13 Jul 2018
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We demonstrated a compact tunable and switchable single/dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser. The fiber laser can be tuned and switched from single-wavelength to dual-wavelength oscillation by using our recently proposed tunable comb filter. The comb filter consists of a section of multimode fiber (MMF) [...] Read more.
We demonstrated a compact tunable and switchable single/dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser. The fiber laser can be tuned and switched from single-wavelength to dual-wavelength oscillation by using our recently proposed tunable comb filter. The comb filter consists of a section of multimode fiber (MMF) coiled into a polarization controller and two sections of single mode fibers (SMFs) to form a SMF/MMF/SMF structure, serving as a simple tunable all-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Due to the insertion of the MMF-based polarization controller (PC), an additional phase shift is introduced from the difference of the birefringence intensity in different dominant modes, which can be used to tune the fiber laser. In the experiment, by properly adjusting the PC, a tuning range of 9.3 nm can be achieved for the single-wavelength operation. Moreover, dual-wavelength operation with different free-spectral-ranges can be obtained. The tunable and switchable fiber lasers are of great importance for their applications in optical testing, optical fiber sensing, and signal processing. Full article
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Communication
Carbon Nanotube Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Generating Cylindrical Vector Beams with a Two-Mode Fiber Bragg Grating
by Yu Cai, Jiaojiao Zhang, Changle Wang, Lin Zhang and Zuxing Zhang
Appl. Sci. 2018, 8(4), 643; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app8040643 - 20 Apr 2018
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We propose and demonstrate a compact all-fiber laser generating cylindrical vector beam (CVB) using carbon nanotubes as the saturable absorber for mode-locking and a two-mode fiber Bragg grating (TM-FBG) as the mode discriminator. Both radially and azimuthally polarized beams with a polarization purity [...] Read more.
We propose and demonstrate a compact all-fiber laser generating cylindrical vector beam (CVB) using carbon nanotubes as the saturable absorber for mode-locking and a two-mode fiber Bragg grating (TM-FBG) as the mode discriminator. Both radially and azimuthally polarized beams with a polarization purity of 90% were obtained by simply adjusting the polarization controllers. The CVB mode-locked fiber laser operates at 1552.9 nm with a 3-dB line width of less than 0.02 nm, generating ns CVB pulses. The all-fiber CVB laser may have potential applications from fundamental research to practical applications, such as particle capture, high-resolution measurement and material processing. Full article
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10 pages, 1942 KiB  
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Self-Q-Switch and CW Operation of a Tunable Dual-Wavelength Er/Yb Double-Clad Fiber Laser
by Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla, Manuel Durán-Sánchez, Berenice Posada-Ramírez, Patricia Prieto-Cortés, Ricardo I. Álvarez-Tamayo and Evgeny A. Kuzin
Appl. Sci. 2018, 8(2), 171; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app8020171 - 25 Jan 2018
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In this paper, a double-clad Er/Yb fiber laser with self-Q-switched and continuous wave operation depending on the pump power range is experimentally demonstrated. The linear cavity is formed on one side by a pair of cascaded tunable fiber Bragg gratings used for the [...] Read more.
In this paper, a double-clad Er/Yb fiber laser with self-Q-switched and continuous wave operation depending on the pump power range is experimentally demonstrated. The linear cavity is formed on one side by a pair of cascaded tunable fiber Bragg gratings used for the selection and tuning of the generated laser lines. On the opposite side, a fiber optical loop mirror with high birefringence fiber in the loop is used to adjust the intra-cavity losses to obtain dual-wavelength emission by temperature changes on the fiber loop. Continuous wave dual-wavelength laser operation is obtained for tunable separation of the generated laser lines in a range from 1 to 7 nm, maximum output power of 3.6Wwith a pump power of 10Wand laser wavelengths linewidth of ~0.2 nm. Self-Q-switched laser pulses are obtained with low pump power in a range from 322 to 890 mW. Q-switched pulses with minimum pulse duration of ~1.5 _s and maximum pulse energy of ~3.5 _J are obtained. Full article
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Stabilize and Flatten Multi-Wavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser through Accurate Hybrid Dual-Ring-Configuration Control
by Xudong Zhang, Tieying Li and Jiuru Yang
Appl. Sci. 2017, 7(12), 1290; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app7121290 - 12 Dec 2017
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In order to enhance the practicality of multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber lasers (MWEDFLs), a novel hybrid dual-ring configuration is proposed in this article, which can flatten the outputs through an optical nonlinear-polarization-rotation-based ring cavity and stabilize the shifts of power and central wavelength of [...] Read more.
In order to enhance the practicality of multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber lasers (MWEDFLs), a novel hybrid dual-ring configuration is proposed in this article, which can flatten the outputs through an optical nonlinear-polarization-rotation-based ring cavity and stabilize the shifts of power and central wavelength of oscillations through an electrical fuzzy-control-based feedback. The experiment results show that, our scheme achieves more than 10 stable oscillations with the dramatic improvements in flatness and working stability. Under dual-ring configuration, the output intensity of MWEDFL reaches ~−7.5 dBm with the flatness of ±0.42 dB. And the in-stabilities in terms of power and central wavelength are respectively constrained ±0.182 dBm and ±0.029 nm within 10-h continuous operation. Full article
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Review
Low Noise High-Energy Dissipative Soliton Erbium Fiber Laser for Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumping
by Mincheng Tang, Rezki Becheker, Pierre-Henry Hanzard, Aleksey Tyazhev, Jean-Louis Oudar, Arnaud Mussot, Alexandre Kudlinski, Thomas Godin and Ammar Hideur
Appl. Sci. 2018, 8(11), 2161; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app8112161 - 05 Nov 2018
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We report on a mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser delivering highly-chirped pulses with several tens of nanojoules of energy around 1560 nm and its exploitation to efficiently pump a fiber optical parametric oscillator (FOPO), thus enabling picosecond pulse generation around 1700 nm. The laser [...] Read more.
We report on a mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser delivering highly-chirped pulses with several tens of nanojoules of energy around 1560 nm and its exploitation to efficiently pump a fiber optical parametric oscillator (FOPO), thus enabling picosecond pulse generation around 1700 nm. The laser cavity features a high normal dispersion and mode-locking is sustained using tailored spectral filtering combined with nonlinear polarization evolution and a semiconductor saturable absorber. Numerical simulations show that the laser dynamics is governed by a strong mode-locking mechanism compensating for the large spectral and temporal pulse evolution along the cavity. In the frame of high energy picosecond pulse generation around 1700 nm, we then demonstrate that using highly-chirped pulses as pump pulses allows for the efficient tuning of the FOPO idler wavelength between 1620 and 1870 nm. In addition, satisfying noise characteristics have been achieved both for the Er-laser and the FOPO, with respective relative intensity noises (RIN) of −154 and −140 dBc/Hz, thus paving the way for the use of such sources in ultrafast instrumentation. Full article
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