Stimulated Brillouin scattering based optical frequency comb generation using a stocks wave recycling loop

Author

Xiaozhong Ge ; Fangzheng Zhang ; Shilong Pan

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Radar Imaging & Microwave Photonics, Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

9-10 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A novel approach to generating an optical frequency comb (OFC) based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in optical fiber is proposed using a stocks wave recycling loop. Thanh to the stocks wave recycling loop, the SBS threshold is reduced and the SBS conversion efficiency is greatly improved, leading to increased number and enhanced flatness of the generated comb lines. An experiment is carried out. An OFC with a frequency spacing of 9.5 GHz is generated. The comb line number is increased from 6 to 9 by using the stocks wave recycling loop, and the flatness is also significantly improved. In addition, the self-lasing cavity modes are well suppressed.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibres; optical frequency combs; stimulated Brillouin scattering; OFC; SBS conversion efficiency; SBS threshold; comb line flatness; comb line number; optical fiber; optical frequency comb generation; self-lasing cavity modes; stimulated brillouin scattering; stocks wave recycling loop; Decision support systems; Hafnium; Optical frequency comb (OFC); SBS threshold reduction; Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2014 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Suzhou

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2014.6987109

Filename

6987109