We propose a fiber ring laser that operates in a single longitudinal mode by incorporating unpumped erbium-doped fiber as a saturable absorber filter. This laser can be discretely tuned to a 25-GHz-spacing grid that precisely matches ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union, Telecommunication Standardization Sector) grids, which are reference frequencies for optical communication systems. This laser has a signal-to-source spontaneous emission ratio higher than 60 dB, and the lasing frequencies of 361 channels are matched to ITU-T grids with excellent power flatness. With one channel of this fiber laser, we place the reference frequency near the absolute frequency reference (AFR, 193.1 THz). The relative frequency stability of the laser and the frequency offset from the AFR were less than 1.6×10−8 (integrated time, 5 min) and 30 MHz, respectively.
We fabricated erbium-doped fiber ring laser with a new structure that can operate in C- & L-band wavelength region in the optical communication band. We performed the absorption spectroscopy of acetylene (13C2H2) and hydrogen cyanide (H13C14N) by using a low noise erbium-doped fiber ring laser and measured absorption spectra of more than fifty transition lines of these gases with an excellent signal to noise ratio (SNR). The wavelength of this laser can be continuously tuned over 102 nm by insertion of the fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter (FFP-TF) in the ring cavity with a novel cavity structure and the optimal gain medium length. The acetylene cell and the hydrogen cyanide cells were fabricated with gas pressure of 120 torr and 250 torr and length of 5 cm and 15 cm, respectively. The pressure broadening coefficients of acetylene transition lines are obtained using this fiber ring laser and an external cavity laser diode.
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