Title :
Injection-locked fiber laser for switchable C-band generation
Author :
Ku, Heun-Duk ; Park, Chang-Soo
Author_Institution :
Korea Photonics Technol. Inst., Gwangju, South Korea
Abstract :
We propose an injection-locked fiber laser (ILFL) for switchable C-band generation based on an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) and gain-saturated reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers (GS RSOAs). The laser generates a narrow 3-dB bandwidth (<; 0.06 nm), high and uniform peak power (Pmax >; 0.22 dB, ΔP <; 0.26 dB), high and uniform side mode suppression ratio (SMSR >; 66 dB, ΔSMSR <; 1 dB), and over 40 C-band wavelengths with 100-GHz channel spacing.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical arrays; optical communication equipment; optical waveguides; semiconductor optical amplifiers; arrayed waveguide grating; gain saturated reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers; injection locked fiber laser; switchable C-band generation; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276728
