Comparison of the Stability of Ring Resonator Structures for Multiwavelength Fiber Lasers Using Raman or Er-Doped Fiber Amplification

Author

Fernández-Vallejo, Montserrat ; Diaz, Silvia ; Perez-Herrera, Rosa Ana ; Unzu, Ruth ; Quintela, María Angeles ; López-Higuera, José Miguel ; López-Amo, Manuel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Public Univ. of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Volume

45

Issue

12

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1551

Lastpage

1557

Abstract

An experimental comparison of the stability performance of two multiwavelength lasers, based on either an erbium-doped fiber or Raman amplification, is reported. Both systems employ fiber Bragg gratings to select the operating wavelengths within the resonant ring cavity. The aim of this study is to compare the output power stability of the lasers and also their optical SNR ratios.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Raman lasers; erbium; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibres; ring lasers; JkJk:Er; Raman amplification; erbium-doped fiber amplification; fiber Bragg gratings; laser power stability; multiwavelength fiber laser; optical SNR ratio; resonant ring cavity; ring resonator structure stability; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser stability; Optical fibers; Optical ring resonators; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Erbium-doped fiber (EDF); Raman amplifier; fiber Bragg grating (FBG); optical fiber amplifier; optical fiber ring laser; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2009.2028618

Filename

5314169