Sub-Kilohertz Narrow Linewidth Fiber Laser Based on Nanoparticles Doped Self-Injection Module

Abstract

Fiber lasers with narrow linewidth are essential light sources for many prospects in advanced scientific fields. In this letter, we proposed a scheme of self-injection locked single-frequency fiber laser based on a hybrid cavity configuration and a novel type of nanoparticles doped fiber. The newly proposed hybrid cavity was applied to achieve mode selection in the case of a long cavity which helped increase output power without sacrificing mode instability and single frequency performance. The nanoparticles doped self-injection module helped achieve a fiber laser with 3dB linewidth compressed from 16 kHz to 497 Hz and side mode suppression ratio of more than 60 dB. Furthermore, the sub-kilohertz fiber laser was amplified to more than 1 W with the polarization extinction ratio of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\sim $ </tex-math></inline-formula> 30 dB. Throughout the work, experimental verification and analysis have been carried out to confirm the single frequency lasing performance, including center wavelength drift and slope efficiency variation. The demonstrated watt-level narrow linewidth fiber laser with low RIN and frequency noise has full potential for practical applications.