Optical fiber shape sensing technology provides an excellent solution for the tracking and guiding of minimally invasive surgical instruments. However, when some large-deformed instrument operation…
Highly coherent lasers with spectral hyperpurity can further advance the fields of science and engineering. Especially, a light source with controllable frequency domain parameters can be adapted t…
The intrinsic spectrum that results from the coupling of spontaneous emission in a laser cavity can determine the energy concentration and coherence of lasers, which is crucial for optical high-pre…
An ultra-widely tunable acousto-optic add-drop filter is proposed and demonstrated based on the acoustically-induced polarization conversion of cladding-etched single-mode fiber, which covers wavel…
Acoustically-induced fiber gratings (AIFGs) can be employed as the main device to achieve wide-range, time-linear, and fast wavelength tunability of various lasers, due to their fast spectral respo…
We propose and demonstrate a novel concept of Brillouin fiber swept laser with narrow linewidth based on mode following effect. Utilizing the synergy of the Brillouin gain spectrum and cavity mode,…
Researches on high coherence light sources always pursue fast tuning speed, linear tunability and persistence of narrow linewidths at different tuning channels. Fortunately, acousto-optical interac…
Advanced applications in optical frequency metrology demand improved tunable lasers with high coherence. Herein, a tunable single-frequency fiber laser based on the longitude-purification induced b…
The traditional optical frequency domain reflectometry usually requires a separate auxiliary interferometer to compensate for laser nonlinear tuning effect. In order to break through this limitatio…
Long range phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometer (φ-OTDR) sensing mainly employs distributed amplification in the sensing fiber. It requires the light to be injected into both ends of …