Highly stable low-noise Brillouin fiber laser with ultranarrow spectral linewidth

Author

Jihong Geng ; Staines, S. ; Zuolan Wang ; Jie Zong ; Blake, M. ; Shibin Jiang

Author_Institution

NP Photonics, Inc, Tucson, AZ

Volume

18

Issue

17

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1813

Lastpage

1815

Abstract

We demonstrate an all-fiber high-power single-frequency Brillouin fiber ring laser with maximum power of 100 mW at 1.55 mum, which is actively stabilized by using the Pound-Drever-Hall frequency-locking scheme. Significant reduction (~20dB) of both relative intensity noise and frequency noise was observed in the Brillouin Stokes radiation as compared with those noises of its pump source, a narrow-linewidth Er-doped fiber laser. Ultranarrow spectral linewidth of the Brillouin fiber lasers was investigated by both delayed self-heterodyne technique and heterodyne beat technique between two independent Brillouin fiber lasers

Keywords

Brillouin spectra; fibre lasers; heterodyne detection; laser mode locking; laser stability; ring lasers; spectral line narrowing; 1.55 mum; 100 mW; Brillouin Stokes radiation; Brillouin fiber ring laser; Pound-Drever-Hall frequency-locking; frequency noise; heterodyne beat technique; laser stability; relative intensity noise; self-heterodyne technique; spectral narrow linewidth; ultranarrow spectral linewidth; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser excitation; Laser noise; Laser stability; Noise reduction; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Brillouin scattering; fiber laser; frequency noise; intensity noise; laser linewidth; stabilization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.881145

Filename

1673474