Abstract

We have experimentally demonstrated a wavelength-tunable passively mode-locked all-fiber laser at 1.5 μm wavelength by using an erbium-doped fiber amplifier, a fiber-pigtailed semiconductor saturable absorber mirror, and a tunable birefringence Sagnac filter. In our work, by properly setting the polarization state of the propagating light in the birefringence Sagnac filter, the mode-locked lasing wavelength can be continuously tuned from 1544.1 to 1560.8 nm, corresponding to a tuning range of 16.7 nm. At a central wavelength of 1548.5 nm, the fiber laser delivers pulses as short as 713.2 fs with a repetition rate of 4.65 MHz, a 3 dB bandwidth of 5.7 nm, and an average output power of 4.86 mW. Our results show that such a mode-locked all-fiber laser has great potential in applications in nonlinear optics at the 1.5 μm band.

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