Power equalization scheme for multi-wavelength source generation from a SOA fiber laser using an amplifier assist ring

Author

Fok, M.P. ; Shu, C.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2005

fDate

22-28 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

788

Lastpage

789

Abstract

A power equalization scheme has been developed for multi-wavelength source generation from a SOA fiber laser using an amplifier assist ring. With the equalization, the number of oscillating wavelength has been increased from 18 to 26, while the corresponding power variation within the range has been suppressed from 5 to 2.6 dB. The standard deviation of the power at different wavelengths is reduced by a factor of 3.5 within a 5 dB bandwidth. The equalization scheme works well during interleaved waveband switching of the multi-wavelength source.

Keywords

fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; ring lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA; amplifier assist ring; fiber laser; interleaved waveband switching; multiwavelength source generation; oscillating wavelength; power equalization; standard deviation; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber polarization; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2005. LEOS 2005. The 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9217-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2005.1548244

Filename

1548244