Electrically tunable liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber laser

Christina B. Olausson; Lara Scolari; Lei Wei; Danny Noordegraaf; Johannes Weirich; Thomas T. Alkeskjold; Kim P. Hansen; Anders Bjarklev

doi:10.1117/12.841998

17 February 2010 Electrically tunable liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber laser

Christina B. Olausson, Lara Scolari, Lei Wei, Danny Noordegraaf, Johannes Weirich, Thomas T. Alkeskjold, Kim P. Hansen, Anders Bjarklev

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Proceedings Volume 7580, Fiber Lasers VII: Technology, Systems, and Applications; 75801D (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841998
Event: SPIE LASE, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate electrical tunability of a fiber laser using a liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber. Tuning of the laser is achieved by combining the wavelength filtering effect of a liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber device with an ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber. We fabricate an all-spliced laser cavity based on a liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber mounted on a silicon assembly, a pump/signal combiner with single-mode signal feed-through and an ytterbium-doped photonic crystal fiber. The laser cavity produces a single-mode output and is tuned in the range 1040- 1065 nm by applying an electric field to the silicon assembly.

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Christina B. Olausson, Lara Scolari, Lei Wei, Danny Noordegraaf, Johannes Weirich, Thomas T. Alkeskjold, Kim P. Hansen, and Anders Bjarklev "Electrically tunable liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber laser", Proc. SPIE 7580, Fiber Lasers VII: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 75801D (17 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.841998

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