Acta Physica Sinica

Investigation of Yb3+-doped superfluorescent fibre sources around 105 3nm

Qiao Qi-Quan, Chen Bai, Fan Wei, Chen Jia-Lin, Xuechun Li, Lin Zun-Qi, 高功率激光物理国家实验室，中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所，上海 201800

Published Jan 1, 2003• 0 citations

Abstract

Based on theory analysis, we have demonstrated experimentally how to use cascaded wideband fibre Bragg grattings (FBGs) as reflectors in the superfluorescent fi bre sources (SFS) configuration. In the experiment, we investigated the output c haracteristcs of the set-up with cascaded wideband FBGs, and compared it with th ose of the set-up with fibre ring reflector or without any reflector. From what we have achieved in the experiment, we find that the cascaded wideband FBGs is p romising to be used as reflectors in SFS.

DOI: 10.7498/aps.52.1422

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