Bandwidth enhanced multi-wavelength source from an SBS-assisted fiber ring laser using four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber

Author

Fok, Mable P. ; Shu, Chester

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report a bandwidth-enhanced multi-wavelength source from a stimulated Brillouin scattering assisted erbium-doped fiber laser using four-wave-mixing in a 35-cm highly nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber. Tuning of output wavelengths and wavelength spacing have been demonstrated.

Keywords

bismuth compounds; erbium; fibre lasers; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; ring lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Bi₂O₃Jk:Er; SBS-assisted fiber ring laser; bandwidth enhanced multiwavelength source; erbium-doped fiber laser; four-wave mixing; highly nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber; size 35 cm; stimulated Brillouin scattering; wavelength spacing; Bandwidth; Birefringence; Bismuth; Brillouin scattering; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Four-wave mixing; Laser tuning; Optical fiber polarization; Ring lasers; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (140.3500) Lasers, erbium; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing; (290.5900) Scattering, stimulated Brillouin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628216

Filename

4628216