Balance and imbalance of nonlinear optical loop mirror for the realization of multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser

Author

Aziz, Siti Narimah ; Arsad, Norhana ; Abu Bakar, Ahmad Ashrif ; Menon, P. Susthitha ; Shaari, Sahbudin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Syst., Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

2-4 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

15

Abstract

A study on the effect of balance and imbalance fraction ratio of nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) to produce multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (MWEDFL) is presented. Based on the study, generation of multiwavelength fiber laser with 60dB OSNR value and 0.42nm mode spacing are realized from the effect of the laser interference using sagnac loop mirror and light interference It is shown that the transmittance value for imbalance fraction ratio obtained from the experiment is 0.36 thus fraction ratio of NOLM is an important parameter in producing multiwavelength fiber laser.

Keywords

Sagnac interferometers; erbium; fibre lasers; mirrors; nonlinear optics; OSNR value; laser interference; light interference; mode spacing; multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser; nonlinear optical loop mirror; sagnac loop mirror; transmittance; Integrated optics; Laser mode locking; Mirrors; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; four wave mixing; multiwavelength fiber laser; nonlinear optical loop mirror;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2014 IEEE 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2014.7002296

Filename

7002296