Brillouin/erbium fiber lasers

Author

Cowie, G.J. ; Yu, Daren ; Chieng, Yew Tai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia

Volume

15

Issue

7

fYear

1997

fDate

7/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1198

Lastpage

1204

Abstract

Brillouin/erbium fiber lasers (BEFLs) have been recently demonstrated as a novel mode of operation of a fiber laser. In a hybrid Brillouin/erbium fiber laser, the combination of two gain media, the gain from the erbium-doped fiber (EDF) and Brillouin gain in single-mode optical fibers allows a resonator to be constructed which supports a laser comb with ~10 GHz or ~0.1 nm line spacing at room temperature. In this paper, we present a detailed discussion of the operation of BEFLs. Single and multiple wavelength generation is discussed, and modeling of single wavelength operation is described

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; laser theory; laser transitions; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin gain; Brillouin/erbium fiber lasers; Er-doped fiber; gain media; hybrid Brillouin/erbium fiber laser; laser comb; line spacing; modeling; multiple wavelength generation; operation; resonator; room temperature; single wavelength operation; single-mode optical fibers; Acoustic waves; Australia; Brillouin scattering; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser modes; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.596966

Filename

596966