Erbium-doped CW and Q-switched fiber ring laser with fiber grating Michelson interferometer
Anting Wang, Hai Ming, Jianping Xie, Lixin Xu, Wencai Huang, Liang Lv, Xiyao Chen, Feng Li, Yunxia Wu, and Meishu Xing
Chinese Optics Letters , Vol.01 , Issue 01 , PP.28-28(2003)

Keywords(OCIS Code)
140.3540 (lasers, Q-switched), 140.3570 (lasers, single-mode), 140.3500 (lasers, erbium), 140.3510 (lasers, fiber).

Abstract
The band-pass characteristic of fiber grating Michelson interferometer is analyzed, which acts as both band-pass filter and Q-switch. An erbium-doped fiber ring laser based on fiber grating Michelson interferometer is implemented for producing single longitudinal mode CW operation with 5 MHz spectral linewidth and up to 6 mW output power. In Q-switched operation, stable fiber laser output pulses with repetition rate of 800 Hz, pulse width of 0.6 μs, average power of 1.8 mW and peak power of 3.4 W are demonstrated. The peak power and average power of the Q-switched pulses are varied with the repetitionrate.

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Column:lasers and laser optics
Note: This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province, China under Grant No. 01042402. A. Wang's e-mail address is atwang@mail.ustc.edu.cn.

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