Paper Title:

Tunable Fiber Laser with Scanner Mirror

Periodical Key Engineering Materials (Volume 497)
Main Theme Silicon Science and Advanced Micro-Device Engineering II
Edited by Osamu Hanaizumi, Masafumi Unno and Kenta Miura
Pages 135-141
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.497.135
Citation Yoshitaka Takahashi et al., 2011, Key Engineering Materials, 497, 135
Online since December, 2011
Authors Yoshitaka Takahashi, Takatoshi Oginosawa
Keywords Fiber Laser, Light Source, Optical Sensing, Tunable Laser
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Abstract

A wavelength-tunable laser is a powerful tool as light source for sensing and its research and development has been studied so far. In order to obtain a new tunable laser the authors have developed a tunable Er3+-doped fiber laser in Littman/Metcalf configuration, and incorporating a Galvano mirror, scanning of the lasing wavelength is demonstrated. For the emission range that a semiconductor-based light source hardly covers, a tunable Tm3+-Ho3+ fluoride fiber laser is also demonstrated.