《Atasi Pal 2016 All-fiber tunable laser in 2um for co2 detection》.pdf

“All-fiber” tunable laser in the 2 μm region, designed for CO2 detection Atasi Pal,1,2,* Ranjan Sen,1 Kort Bremer,2 Shuang Yao,2 Elfed Lewis,3 Tong Sun,2 and Kenneth T. V. Grattan2 1Fiber Optics Photonics Division, Council of Scientific Industrial Research-Central Glass Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata-700032, India 2School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University London, London EC1V 0HB, UK 3Optical Fiber Sensors Research Centre, University of Limerick, Castleroy, Ireland *Corresponding author: atasi@cgcri.res.in Received 4 June 2012; revised 16 August 2012; accepted 28 August 2012; posted 29 August 2012 (Doc. ID 169943); published 5 October 2012 A stable and tunable thulium-doped “all-fiber” laser offering a narrow linewidth has been created specifically to act as a compact and simple laser source for gaseous CO2 detection. This has been done through a careful design to match the laser output wavelengths to the CO2 absorption lines at 1.875 and 1.997 μm, respectively. A sustainable output power of 11 mW over a tuning range of 7 nm has been obtained by using a combination of a high-reflective fiber Bragg grating with a low-reflective broadband mirror, fabricated at the end of the fiber through silver film deposition. The tuning was achieved using the relaxation-compression mechanism of the fiber Bragg grating, which formed an integral part of the laser resonant cavity. A fiber B