Widely tunable Yb3+-doped laser with all fiber structure

In this paper, an all fiber Yb3+-doped fiber ring laser with large tuning range has been reported. A 976 nm laser diode (LD) pumped laser is used as the pump source and high concentration Yb3+-doped fiber is adopted as gain medium. Adjusting the polarization controller (PC), a widely tunable range of 20 nm from 1030 to 1050 nm is obtained. The spectral linewidth of the pulse is less than 0.2 nm. Comparing with other fiber laser structures, the fiber laser with an all-fiber structure has higher efficiency and better stability. The laser also has very stable and flat output within the whole tuning range.