| Summary: | A dual-wavelength thulium-doped fluoride
fiber (TDFF) laser is presented. The generation of the TDFF
laser is achieved with the incorporation of a single modemultimode-
single mode (SMS) interferometer in the laser
cavity. The simple SMS interferometer is fabricated using the
combination of two-mode step index fiber and single-mode fiber.
With this proposed design, as many as eight stable laser lines
are experimentally demonstrated. Moreover, when a tunable
bandpass filter is inserted in the laser cavity, a dual-wavelength
TDFF laser can be achieved in a 1.5-μm region. By heterodyning
the dual-wavelength laser, simulation results suggest that the
generated microwave signals can be tuned from 105.678 to
106.524 GHz with a constant step of �0.14 GHz. The presented
photonics-based microwave generation method could provide
alternative solution for 5G signal sources in 100-GHz region.
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