Title :
Effect of fibre base and reflectors profile on the efficiency of ultra- long laser cavities
Author :
Karalekas, V. ; Harper, P. ; El-Taher, A.E. ; Ania-Castanón, J.D. ; Shu, X. ; Bennion, I. ; Turitsyn, S.K.
Author_Institution :
Photonics Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
We study the effect of fibre base and grating profile on the efficiency of ultra-long Raman lasers. We show that for the studied parameters, FBG profile does not affect the performance when operating away from the zero-dispersion wavelength.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; Raman lasers; laser cavity resonators; optical dispersion; optical fibres; FBG; fiber Bragg gratings; fibre base profile; fibre grating profile; fibre reflectors profile; ultra-long Raman lasers; ultra-long laser cavities; zero-dispersion wavelength; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Pump lasers; Reflectivity;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
