Switchable and tunable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with fiber Bragg gratings and photonic crystal fiber

Author

Liu, Xueming ; Zhou, Xiaoqun ; Tang, Xiufeng ; Ng, Junhong ; Hao, Jianzhong ; Chai, Teck Yoong ; Leong, Edward ; Lu, Chao

Author_Institution

Lightwave Dept., Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

17

Issue

8

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1626

Lastpage

1628

Abstract

We propose and report on a novel multiwavelength-switchable-tunable erbium-doped fiber laser with excellent stability and uniformity based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber. By adjusting the attenuators, the single, dual, or triple wavelengths can be lasing simultaneously. Under the influence of the FWM, the spectrum is stabilized and the uniformity is less than 0.6 dB.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; erbium; laser stability; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; optical attenuators; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibres; photonic crystals; attenuators; erbium-doped fiber laser; fiber Bragg gratings; four-wave mixing; laser stability; multiwavelength laser; nonlinear fiber; photonic crystal fiber; switchable laser; tunable laser; uniformity; Bragg gratings; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Four-wave mixing; Laser stability; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber polarization; Photonic crystal fibers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices; Erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser; fiber Bragg grating (FBG); photonic crystal fiber (PCF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.851024

Filename

1471756