Dual-wavelength operation of a passively mode-locked “figure-of-eight” ytterbium-erbium fibre soliton laser

Abstract Stable, dual-wavelength operation of a diode-pumped, passively mode-locked, ytterbium-erbium “figure-of-eight” (F8L) fibre laser has been achieved by including tunable filters and/or fibre gratings in the laser cavity. The centre wavelengths of the two channels were independently tunable when gain compensation was provided in the cavity. Bandwidth-limited solitons could be generated.

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