Title :
Multiwavelength operation of Brillouin/erbium fiber lasers with injection-locked seeding
Author :
Cowle, Gregory J ; Loh, Wei H.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ.
Abstract :
Brillouin/erbium doped fiber lasers (BEFLs) have recently been demonstrated as a novel mode of operation of fiber lasers, using both the gain of an erbium-doped fiber (EDF) and Brillouin gain in single-mode optical fiber. BEFLs can be configured to produce laser combs, with potential applications in dense wavelength-division multiplexing. In this paper we present a different regime of operation of a BEFL, in which a signal is injection locked in a ring resonator, which then seeds the BEFL modes
Keywords :
Brillouin spectra; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; wavelength division multiplexing; BEFL modes; Brillouin gain; Brillouin/erbium fiber lasers; dense wavelength-division multiplexing; erbium-doped fiber Brillouin laser gain; injection locked; injection-locked seeding; laser combs; multiwavelength operation; ring resonator; single-mode optical fiber; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Optical fibers; Optical resonators; Power generation; Ring lasers; Signal generators; Signal processing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-480-7
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1997.719666
