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Flexibly tunable multiwavelength Raman fiber laser based on symmetrical bending method

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Abstract

A practically tunable multiwavelength Raman fiber laser based on few-mode fiber Bragg gratings without additional multichannel filters is investigated. We achieved high quality of the Raman laser output with a high extinction ratio of more than 45 dB. The number of lasing wavelengths can be adjusted by the properties of few-mode Bragg gratings with multiple resonant wavelengths. The lasing wavelength of Raman fiber laser can be readily controlled by the tension and compression strain, which correspond to the directional bending curvature change. The dynamic range of lasing wavelength change was more than 15 nm.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. (a) Experimental setup for multiwavelength Raman fiber laser based on a few-mode FBGs and (b) tuning method based on the symmetrical bending of a flexible metal plate. The cross section of the few-mode fiber was also shown (PC=Polarization controller). The dashed line shows the neutral axis retains its original length even if the metal plate is bent.
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Fig. 2. Measured reflection spectra of a few-mode FBG with the bending curvature change (+: the positive bending, -: the negative bending).
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Fig. 3. Measured output spectra of the multiwavelength Raman laser with the bending curvature change.
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Fig. 4. Lasing wavelength shift as a function of the bending curvature change.

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