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Tunable and switchable multi-wavelength actively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser based on cascaded fiber filters and EOM

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A tunable and switchable multi-wavelength actively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser based on cascaded fiber filters and electro-optic modulator is proposed. The hybrid filter consists of an all-fiber interferometer with a polarization maintaining fiber and a Lyot filter. At the pump power of 350 mW, the laser states of single-, dual-, triple- and quadruple-wavelength can be obtained by adjusting the polarization controllers, and a stable Q-switched pulse with the repetition rate of 20 kHz is observed on the oscilloscope. Moreover, the single-, dual- and triple-wavelength laser outputs can be tuned simultaneously with a fixed wavelength interval, and the maximum tuning range is 6 nm. The switchability and the wavelength interval adjustment of the proposed laser are more flexible, which can be widely used in material processing, medical imaging and other fields.

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  1. Engineering Research Center of Communication Devices and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China

    Zhipan Chen, Honggang Pan, Ailing Zhang, Bo Zhang, Rupeng Li, Chunqi Chen, Yaomei Peng & Zhanzhi Liu

  2. Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, 252000, China

    Zhihuan Chen

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Chen, Z., Chen, Z., Pan, H. et al. Tunable and switchable multi-wavelength actively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser based on cascaded fiber filters and EOM. J Opt 52, 2333–2341 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12596-023-01141-w

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