Title :
Multi-wavelength Brillouin-Erbium Fiber Laser Utilizing a Fiber Bragg Grating Filter with Intra-Cavity Pre-Amplified Brillouin Pump
Author :
Nasir, M. N Mohd ; Yusoff, Z. ; Al-Mansoori, M.H. ; Rashid, H. A Abdul ; Choudhury, P.K.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonics Res. & Applic., Multimedia Univ., Cyberjaya
Abstract :
In this paper, we demonstrate an efficient multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser with a pre-amplified Brillouin pump within a Fabry-Perot cavity. With the utilization of a fiber Bragg grating filter as one of the fiber loop mirrors, up to 25 stable Brillouin Stokes lines could be generated with channels spacing of 0.088 nm. The architecture of the design needs only 3 dBm of the Brillouin pump power and 90 mW of the 980 nm laser diode to produce the 25 maximum output channels.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; Brillouin spectra; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; optical filters; optical pumping; Brillouin pump power; Fabry-Perot cavity; channel spacing; fiber Bragg grating filter; fiber loop mirrors; intra-cavity pre-amplified Brillouin pump; laser diode; multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser; power 90 mW; stable Brillouin Stokes; wavelength 980 nm; Brillouin scattering; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot; Fiber lasers; Filters; Laser excitation; Optical fibers; Power generation; Pump lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing; fiber Bragg grating; fiber lasers; multi-wavelength laser source; nonlinear Brillouin scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunication Technologies 2008 and 2008 2nd Malaysia Conference on Photonics. NCTT-MCP 2008. 6th National Conference on
Conference_Location :
Putrajaya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2214-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2215-9
DOI :
10.1109/NCTT.2008.4814265
