Self-stabilizing effect of four-wave mixing and its applications on multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber lasers

Author

Liu, Xueming ; Lu, C.

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Transient Opt. & Photonics, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Xi´´an, China

Volume

17

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2541

Lastpage

2543

Abstract

Self-stabilizing effect of four-wave mixing (FWM) is analyzed and proven in this letter by using the undepleted approximation and the perturbation method. Multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber lasers with excellent stability and uniformity are demonstrated experimentally at room temperature. The novel fiber lasers are stabilized and equalized as a result of the balance between the self-stabilizing function of FWM and the mode competition effect of erbium-doped fiber.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser stability; multiwave mixing; 293 to 298 K; erbium-doped fiber; erbium-doped fiber lasers; four-wave mixing; laser stability; laser uniformity; mode competition effect; multiwavelength lasers; perturbation method; room temperature; self-stabilizing effect; undepleted approximation; Bragg gratings; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Laser modes; Laser stability; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Perturbation methods; Erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL); fiber Bragg grating (FBG); four-wave mixing (FWM); photonic crystal fiber (PCF);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.858075

Filename

1542142