Widely tunable multiwavelength hybrid Brillouin-erbium fiber laser utilizing virtual mirror

Author

Al-Alimi, A.W. ; Yaacob, M.H. ; Abas, Ahmad Fauzi ; Mahdi, M.A. ; Al-Mansoori, M.H. ; Mokhtar, Makhfudzah

Author_Institution

Wireless & Photonic Networks Res. Center, Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

28-30 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Multiwavelength Brillouin erbium fiber laser (BEFL) in a new linear cavity structure have been demonstrated. The BEFL cavity was formed by a double pass amplification box on one side and a virtual mirror installed on the other side. The double pass amplification box reduces the threshold power and enhances Stokes line generation. By utilizing dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) to act as a virtual mirror, the self lasing cavity modes that limits the tuning range of the ordinary BEFL is efficiently eliminated. At Brillouin pump power of 5 dBm and EDF pump power of 90 mW, up to 14 Stokes lines and a wide tuning range of 40 nm, from 1529 nm to 1569 nm, free from the self lasing cavity modes, were obtained.

Keywords

Brillouin spectra; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser modes; laser tuning; optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; BEFL; Brillouin pump power; EDF pump power; Stokes line generation; dispersion compensating fiber; double pass amplification box; linear cavity structure; power 90 mW; self lasing cavity modes; threshold power; tunable multiwavelength hybrid Brillouin-erbium fiber laser; virtual mirror; wavelength 1529 nm to 1569 nm; Cavity resonators; Optical fibers; Optical pumping; Particle beam optics; Scattering; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6073-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2013.6687062

Filename

6687062