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Fiber laser switched by a long period grating interferometer as an intra-cavity loss modulator

Antonio DiezD. Saez-rodriguezMiguel V. AndrésYu. O. BarmenkovJose Luis Cruz

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PHOSFOSDistributed feedback laserMaterials scienceOptical fiberbusiness.industryPhysics::OpticsPolarization-maintaining optical fiberLong-period fiber gratingAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsElectronic Optical and Magnetic Materialslaw.inventionOpticsFiber Bragg gratinglawFiber laserPhysics::Atomic PhysicsElectrical and Electronic EngineeringPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryPlastic optical fiberbusiness

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Abstract In this paper we present an actively switched fiber laser with an all-fiber long-period grating-based interferometer used as an intra-cavity loss modulator. The modulator consists of two equal long-period gratings written sequentially in the same piece of a double-clad optical fiber. One of the gratings is fixed onto a piezoceramic cylinder producing fast modulation of the interferometer transmission spectrum. The laser demonstrates a stable regime of pulsed emission at repetition rates in the range of tens of kHz.

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2010-07-01Optics Communications
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2010.03.041