| Title |
Fabrication and Output Characteristics of a High-Speed Wavelength Swept Mode-Locked Laser |
| Authors |
이응제(Lee, Eung-Je) ; 김용평(Kim, Yong-Pyung) |
| Keywords |
wavelength swept source ; FD OCT ; wavelength tuning ; mode-locking |
| Abstract |
We demonstrate a wavelength swept mode-locked ring laser for the frequency domain optical coherence tomography(FD OCT). A laser is constructed by using a semiconductor optical amplifier, fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter and 2.6 km fiber ring cavity. Mode-locking is implemented by 2.6 km fiber ring cavity for matching the fundamental or harmonic of cavity roundtrip time to a sweep period. The wavelength sweeps are repetitively generated with the repetition period of 77.2 kHz which is the parallel resonance frequency of Fabry-Perot tunable filter for the low driving current consumption of the fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filter. The wavelength tuning range of the laser is more than FWHM of 61 nm centered at the wavelength of 1320 nm and the linewidth of the source is 0.014pm0.002 nm. |