Compact long-wavelength band Brillouin-Erbium fiber laser in a Fabry-Perot resonator

Author

Al-Mansoori, M.H. ; Mahdi, M.A. ; Jamaludin, M.Z. ; Din, Norashidah Md ; Abdullah, F.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Dept., Univ. Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We demonstrate compact architecture of multiwavelength L-band Brillouin-Erbium fiber laser in a Fabry-Perot resonator. The laser architecture utilizes a double-pass Brillouin pump pre-amplification technique to increase the Brillouin gain efficiency. The proposed fiber laser structure is able to operate at shot length of single mode fiber and is able to produce high number of output channels with high peak output power. We are able to generate up to 13 and 25 output channels with a constant wavelength separation of 0.089 nm in a short single mode fiber of 0.1 km and 0.5 km respectively.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; erbium; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin gain efficiency; Fabry-Perot resonator; JkJk:Er; compact long-wavelength band Brillouin-erbium fiber laser; constant wavelength separation; double-pass Brillouin pump preamplification; high peak output power; single mode fiber; size 0.1 km; size 0.5 nm; Cavity resonators; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber sensors; Scattering; Brillouin scattering; Erbium; Fiber lasers; Nonlinear Optic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7186-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2010.5604387

Filename

5604387