Title |
Construction of High-Speed Wavelength Swept Mode-Locked Laser Based on Oscillation Characteristics of Fiber Fabry-Perot Tunable Filter |
Authors |
이응제(Lee, Eung-Je) ; 김용평(Kim, Yong-Pyung) |
Keywords |
Wavelength swept source ; FFP-TF ; Wavelength tuning ; FD-OCT ; Mode-locking |
Abstract |
A high-speed wavelength swept laser, which is based on oscillation characteristics of a fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter, is described. The laser is constructed by using a semiconductor optical amplifier, a fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter, and 3.348 km fiber ring cavity. The wavelength sweeps are repeatatively generated with the repetition period of 61 kHz which is the first parallel oscillation frequency of the Fabry-Perot tunable filter for the low power consumption. Mode-locking is implemented by 3.348 km fiber ring cavity for matching the fundamental of cavity roundtrip time to the sweep period. The wavelength tuning range of the laser is 87 nm(FWHM) and the average output power is 1.284 mW. |