Design and fabrication of erbium doped photosensitive fibers  

作　　者：LI Jian LIU Peng LU ShaoHua WANG Jing MAO XiangQiao WEI Huai FU YongJun ZHENG Kai NING TiGang LI TangJun JIAN ShuiSheng 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Lightwave Technology,Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing 100044,China [2]Key Lab of All Optical Network&Advanced Telecommunication Network of EMC,Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing 100044,China [3]Physics Department of XingTai College,Xingtai 054001,China

出　　处：《Science China(Technological Sciences)》2009年第5期1234-1241,共8页中国科学（技术科学英文版）

基　　金：Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Project) (Grant No. 2007AA01Z258);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60771008);Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No. NCET-06-0076);Beijing Natural Science Founda-tion (Grant No. 4052023);the Beijing Jiaotong University Foundation (Grant No. 2006XM003)

摘　　要：A kind of erbium doped photosensitive fiber(EDPF) was proposed and fabricated,whose core was made of double layers named photosensitive layer and erbium doped layer.The double-layer core de-sign can overcome difficulties in fabrication of EDPF with single core design,i.e.the conflict between the high consistency rare earth doping and high consistency germanium doping.A sample was fabri-cated through the modified chemical vapor deposition method combined with solution doping tech-nique.The peak absorption coefficient was 48.80 dB/m at 1.53 μm,the background loss was lower than 0.1 dB/m,and the reflectivity of the fiber Brag gratings(FBG) written directly on the sample fiber was up to 97.3% by UV-writing technology.Moreover,a C band tunable fiber laser was fabricated using the sample fiber,in which a uniform FBG was written directly on EDPFs as a reflector.A single wavelength lasing with a maximum wavelength tuning range of 1555.2―1558.0 nm was achieved experimentally.Within this tuning range,the full-width at half maximum(FWHM) of the laser output was smaller than 0.015 nm and the side mode suppression ratio(SMSR) was better than 50 dB.A kind of erbium doped photosensitive fiber (EDPF) was proposed and fabricated, whose core was made of double layers named photosensitive layer and erbium doped layer. The double-layer core design can overcome difficulties in fabrication of EDPF with single core design, i.e. the conflict between the high consistency rare earth doping and high consistency germanium doping. A sample was fabricated through the modified chemical vapor deposition method combined with solution doping technique. The peak absorption coefficient was 48.80 dB/m at 1.53 μm, the background loss was lower than 0.1 dB/m, and the reflectivity of the fiber Brag gratings (FBG) written directly on the sample fiber was up to 97.3% by UV-writing technology. Moreover, a C band tunable fiber laser was fabricated using the sample fiber, in which a uniform FBG was written directly on EDPFs as a reflector. A single wavelength lasing with a maximum wavelength tuning range of 1555.2–1558.0 nm was achieved experimentally. Within this tuning range, the full-width at half maximum (FWHM) of the laser output was smaller than 0.015 nm and the side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) was better than 50 dB.

关 键 词：ERBIUM DOPED fiber(EDF) PHOTOSENSITIVITY modified chemical vapor deposition(MCVD) method solution doping technique FIBER Bragg grating(FBG) FIBER laser wavelength tunable 

分 类 号：O611.3[理学—无机化学]