Application of a Twin-Core Fiber with Mode Coupling between the Cores for the Narrow-Linewidth Erbium Laser Implementation
摘要
Abstract
An erbium laser is presented in a configuration of a half-open cavity consisting of a narrow-linewidth fiber Bragg grating and artificial Rayleigh reflector providing random distributed feedback. For additional spectral filtering, a 10-m twin-core fiber wound onto a spool with a diameter of 9 cm is used. A single-frequency generation regime with the maximum output power of 4.4 mW is achieved; the generation linewidth is 2 kHz.