Title :
A widely tunable fiber laser based on narrow band parametric amplification
Author :
Gershikov, A. ; Shumakher, E. ; Willinger, A. ; Eisenstein, G.
Author_Institution :
Electr. Eng. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We report on a widely tunable laser source based on narrow band fiber parametric amplification. The parametric process is coupled to the stimulated Raman gain and we demonstrate two configurations which discriminate between the two nonlinear processes.
Keywords :
laser tuning; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric amplifiers; stimulated Raman scattering; narrow band fiber parametric amplification; nonlinear processes; stimulated Raman gain; tunable fiber laser; Cavity resonators; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Oscillators;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621433
