Multiple Brillouin stokes generation utilizing a linear cavity Erbium-doped fiber laser

Author

Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Haydar ; Noordin, Nor Kamariah ; Saripan, M.Iqbal ; Mahdi, Mohd Adzir

Author_Institution

Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Volume

10

Issue

1

fYear

2008

fDate

3/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper reports the design of a multiwavelength fiber laser source that utilizes a linear cavity of hybrid Brillouin/Erbium fiber laser (BEFL). The output power, threshold power and free running cavity modes were investigated against the pump powers. The structure exhibited low threshold operation of 4 mW at 2.3 mW injected Brillouin pump power. The optimization of Brillouin pump wavelength, power and Erbium gain led to a maximum possible number of channels generated. Simultaneous and stable operation of 21 channels with 10.88 GHz channels spacing were obtained from this architecture at 1 mW injected Brillouin pump power and 90 mW Erbium doped fiber pump power in the 1555 nm region.

Keywords

Cavity resonators; Erbium; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Pump lasers; Scattering; Brillouin Stokes; Erbium; fiber lasers; multiwave-length laser source; optical communications; stimulated Brillouin scattering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications and Networks, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1229-2370

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JCN.2008.6388321

Filename

6388321