Stabilize and flatten multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser through accurate hybrid dual-ring-configuration control

Abstract

In order to enhance the practicality of multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber lasers (MWEDFLs), a novel hybrid dual-ring configuration is proposed in this article, which can flatten the outputs through an optical nonlinear-polarization-rotation-based ring cavity and stabilize the shifts of power and central wavelength of oscillations through an electrical fuzzy-control-based feedback. The experiment results show that, our scheme achieves more than 10 stable oscillations with the dramatic improvements in flatness and working stability. Under dual-ring configuration, the output intensity of MWEDFL reaches ~-7.5 dBm with the flatness of ±0.42 dB. And the in-stabilities in terms of power and central wavelength are respectively constrained ±0.182 dBm and ±0.029 nm within 10-h continuous operation.