To realize a stable SLM operation of the fiber laser, different styles have been
implemented.
The ring fiber laser [11,12] is rather complex and expensive systems with hardly achievable wavelength stability. At the same time, it needs ultra-narrow BPF and has low output power and slope efficiency. Short linear cavity distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) fiber laser [13] or the DFB fiber laser can overcome these problems above [14].
They have simple, robust, and compact structure providing operation without longitude mode hopping. However, they need high concentration and gain of active optical fiber. Spiegelberg et al. have reported DBR laser emission around 1550nm in Er/Yb co-doped phosphate glass fiber [13]. However, the Er/Yb co-doped phosphate glass fiber with photosensitivity is very expensive and the spliced joints between the two different fibers may cause high loss and mechanical fragility, because phosphate and silica glasses have different optical,mechanical, and thermal properties. Since the ordinary EDF has low doped concentration and gain, in this paper, the methods of enlarging the effective area and multi-compound doped are proposed to increase the erbium-doped concentration and gain of the active fiber core.