Specially designed composite heavily Er-doped fiber in combination with unique point-by-point inscription technology by femtosecond pulses at 1,026 nm enables formation of distributed-feedback (DFB) laser with ultra-short cavity length of 5.3 mm whose parameters are comparable and even better than those for conventional Er-doped fiber DFB lasers having much longer cavity. The composite fiber was fabricated by melting rare-earth doped phosphate glass in silica tube. The ultra-short DFB laser generates single-polarization single-frequency radiation at 1,550 nm with narrow linewidth (3.5 kHz) and 0.5 mW output power at 600 mW 980-nm pumping. The same fiber with conventional CW UV (244 nm) inscription technology using phase mask enables fabrication of 40-mm long DFB laser with > 18 mW output power at 3.3% pump conversion, which is a record efficiency for Er-doped fiber DFB lasers. The developed technologies form an advanced platform for Er-doped fiber DFB lasers operating around 1.55 µm with excellent output characteristics and unique practical features, in particular, the ultra-short DFB lasers are attractive for sensing applications.
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