Multiwavelength operation of Brillouin/erbium fiber lasers with injection-locked seeding

Author

Cowle, Gregory J ; Loh, Wei H.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ.

fYear

1997

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

35

Abstract

Brillouin/erbium doped fiber lasers (BEFLs) have recently been demonstrated as a novel mode of operation of fiber lasers, using both the gain of an erbium-doped fiber (EDF) and Brillouin gain in single-mode optical fiber. BEFLs can be configured to produce laser combs, with potential applications in dense wavelength-division multiplexing. In this paper we present a different regime of operation of a BEFL, in which a signal is injection locked in a ring resonator, which then seeds the BEFL modes

Keywords

Brillouin spectra; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; wavelength division multiplexing; BEFL modes; Brillouin gain; Brillouin/erbium fiber lasers; dense wavelength-division multiplexing; erbium-doped fiber Brillouin laser gain; injection locked; injection-locked seeding; laser combs; multiwavelength operation; ring resonator; single-mode optical fiber; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Optical fibers; Optical resonators; Power generation; Ring lasers; Signal generators; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719666

Filename

719666