Title :
Cascaded Raman fibre laser operating at 1.48 μm
Author :
Chang, Do, II ; Lee, Hak Kyu ; Kim, Kyong Hon
Author_Institution :
Telecommun. Basic Res. Lab., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejeon, South Korea
fDate :
10/28/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An efficient cascaded Raman fibre laser based on a composite cavity comprising a fused fibre WDM coupler and fibre Bragg gratings is presented. Wavelength tunable laser operation is obtained at the second-order Raman shift with a slope efficiency of 38%
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; Raman lasers; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser transitions; laser tuning; optical fibre couplers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.48 micrometre; 38 percent; cascaded Raman fibre laser; composite cavity; fibre Bragg gratings; fused fibre WDM coupler; second-order Raman shift; slope efficiency; wavelength tunable laser operation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19991290
