Experimental study on Multi-wavelength Brillouin-Raman fiber laser

Author

Liu Honglin ; Zou Yuanping ; Wu Han ; Zhang Zaixuan

Author_Institution

Coll. of Opt. & Electron. Technol., China Jiliang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

24-27 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

351

Lastpage

354

Abstract

A Multi-wavelength Brillouin-Raman fiber laser system is introduced. A tunable ECL laser whose power is 3dBm is used as Brillouin pump, a three-wavelength fiber Raman laser is used as Raman pump, and 25km single mode fiber is used as both Brillouin and Raman gain media. Backward configuration of Raman amplifier used. Multi-wavelength emission can be obtained when the wavelength range of ECL is between 1530nm and 1560nm. When the wavelength of ECL is 1530 nm, the backward cascaded SBS of 178 even orders are observed. Its frequency shift and spectral bandwidth is 22GHz and 29.72 nm, respectively.

Keywords

Raman lasers; fibre lasers; laser tuning; optical pumping; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin gain media; Brillouin pump; Raman amplifier backward configuration; Raman gain media; backward cascaded SBS; frequency shift; multiwavelength Brillouin-Raman fiber laser; multiwavelength emission; single mode fiber; size 25 km; spectral bandwidth; three-wavelength fiber Raman laser; tunable ECL laser; wavelength 1530 nm to 1560 nm; Brillouin scattering; Cascaded Brillouin scattering; Multi-wavelength laser; Raman scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2010), 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2010.1224

Filename

5778486