Pulsed operation of a spacing-adjustable multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser

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

119

Lastpage

120

Abstract

A spacing-adjustable multi-wavelength pulsed source has been proposed using an EDF ring laser that consists of a 2 km standard single mode fiber to support stimulated Brillouin scattering. Multi-wavelength outputs with spectral spacing ranging from 0.08 to 1.20 nm are produced using PMF-LMFs with different fiber lengths. A 10 GHz multi-wavelength pulse source is obtained by external modulation of the laser output with an electro-absorption modulator.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; erbium; laser cavity resonators; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; ring lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; 10 GHz; 2 km; electroabsorption modulator; erbium-doped fiber laser; external modulation; multiwavelength laser; multiwavelength pulse source; pulsed laser operation; ring laser; spacing-adjustable laser; standard single mode fiber; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin scattering; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser noise; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Pulse amplifiers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers;

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.2005.1547907

Filename

1547907