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We present a fibre laser broadly tunable in a wavelength range from 1058 nm to 1640 nm based on a new type of metallic resonant leaky-mode diffraction grating and three fibre-pigtailed semiconductor optical amplifiers. For TM polarization in Littrow configuration, the grating has experimentally measured diffraction efficiency into the -1st reflected order of more than 90 % over a spectral range of 1417 nm to 1700 nm. The laser covered a spectral range of 331 nm within a tuning band of 558 nm without any adjustment of optics and its tuning range was limited by amplification bands of available semiconductor optical amplifiers.
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This erratum presents a correction to the computed reflection spectra of transient fiber Bragg gratings that are spontaneously built-up in the ytterbium-doped fiber of the fiber laser with laser wavelength self-sweeping. The corrected spectra have high reflectivity reaching values up to 100%. Therefore, they still more support the conclusion drawn in the original paper that self-sweeping is an important mechanism for triggering the self-Q-switched regime with giant pulse generation.
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We present a method for the estimation of the reflection spectra of transient gratings in rare-earth doped fiber lasers having a self-sweeping of laser wavelength. We show that high reflectivities of several tens of percent can be achieved. An example of this is demonstrated through the use of an experimental Yb-doped Fabry-Perot fiber laser. The gratings' spectra are highly asymmetric due to the apodization of the refractive index modulation. The importance of the self-sweeping regime for triggering self-Q-switched laser instabilities is discussed.
