Near and mid IR fiber Brillouin-active optical devices and applications

Author

Yu, Chung ; Zhou, Haishan ; Cheng, Swee ; Holliday-Mosley, Annette

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

7-9 Mar 1993

Firstpage

169

Lastpage

173

Abstract

Implementation of some of the concepts of fiber based mid-IR optical devices using a fiber ring, which has been shown to greatly lower the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold, is addressed. It is shown that when the SBS process in the fiber is viewed as an amplifying mechanism, the externally generated thermal and mechanical Brillouin noise in a linear fiber can be selectively amplified by the ring, forming an excellent ambient noise sensing element. Some preliminary data are presented

Keywords

acoustic noise; fibre lasers; noise measurement; optical fibres; ring lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; thermal noise; ambient noise sensing element; amplifying mechanism; fiber ring; linear fiber; mechanical Brillouin noise; mid-IR optical devices; selective amplification; stimulated Brillouin scattering; thermal noise; Brillouin scattering; Noise generators; Optical devices; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber losses; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Silicon compounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 1993. Proceedings SSST '93., Twenty-Fifth Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tuscaloosa, AL

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3560-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.1993.522764

Filename

522764