@conference{10902/13284, year = {2017}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/13284}, abstract = {In this work, a fiber ring laser sensor has been employed to analyze the influence of passive Er-doped fiber acting as saturable absorber. Lasing modes of fiber ring lasers can be reduced by properly locating a saturable absorber that narrows the spectral width of the FBG that selects the lasing wavelength. Employing commercial Er-doped fiber, different configurations have been evaluated, reaching the SLM regime on a ring cavity of several meters. Thus, the achieved strain response of the whole sensor behaves at its mirror FBG, exhibiting linear response to strain.}, organization = {This work has been supported by the project TEC2013-47264-C2 and TEC2016-76021-C2, of the Spanish government and by a Parliament of Cantabria postdoc grant.}, publisher = {SPIE Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers}, publisher = {Proceedings of SPIE, 2017, 10323, 103232H}, publisher = {25th International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, Jeju, Republic of Korea, 2017}, title = {Influence of saturable absorbers on fiber ring laser sensors}, author = {Rodríguez Cobo, Luis and Quintela Incera, María Ángeles and Ruiz Lombera, Rubén and Pérez Herrera, Rosa Ana and López-Amo Sainz, Manuel and López Higuera, José Miguel}, }