Fibre Bragg reflector for mode selection and line-narrowing of injection lasers

Abstract
A surface-relief grating on a side-polished single-mode fibre acts as an external Bragg reflector for standard, multilongitudinal-mode 1.3 μm injection lasers. With 2 m fibre length, single-mode, 60 kHz linewidth operation at 1 mW is obtained.