A switched wavelength optical pulse source for wavelength division multiplexed applications

Author

Zhao, D. ; Chan, K.T. ; Liu, Y. ; Zhang, L. ; Bennion, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

300

Lastpage

301

Abstract

Summary form only given.Variable wavelength actively mode-locked fiber ring lasers are attracting great interest for a variety of applications. In such lasers, fiber Bragg gratings (FBG´s) form a convenient means to realize wavelength tuning or switching. The laser demonstrated recently has overcome disadvantages by incorporating a cavity whose lengths for all wavelengths selected by a set of discrete gratings are intrinsically identical. However, such a scheme suffers from a longer cavity and less efficient use of power because of the inclusion of a 50:50 coupler.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical communication equipment; optical fibre couplers; ring lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 50:50 fibre coupler; discrete gratings; fiber Bragg gratings; switched wavelength optical pulse source; variable wavelength actively mode-locked fiber ring lasers; wavelength division multiplexed applications; wavelength switching; wavelength tuning; Fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Optical coupling; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Quantum cascade lasers; Ring lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.907039

Filename

907039