Er-doped fiber laser with Rayleigh/SBS ring mirror and narrow bandwidth FBG

Author

Fotiadi, A.A. ; Deparis, O. ; Megret, P. ; Blondel, M.

Author_Institution

Adv. Res. in Opt., Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

519

Abstract

Summary form only given. We present new experiments with an Er-doped fiber laser pumped by a low-power 980 nm laser diode. In order to improve the laser stability performance an FBG with bandwidth FWHM /spl sim/12.7 GHz has been specifically employed in the laser configuration. It allowed us to localize the frequency /spl nu//sub A/ near the maximum of FBG reflectivity /spl nu//sub M/ (/spl lambda//sub M/ = 1533.098 nm) and also to prevent the undesirable growth of high-order SBS components during lasing (note that /spl Delta//spl nu//sub SBS/ /spl sim/ 11 GHz). A Q-switched operational mode has been successfully obtained with this configuration at pump power levels of 20-160 mW.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Q-switching; Rayleigh scattering; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; laser stability; optical pumping; stimulated Brillouin scattering; 1533.098 nm; 20 to 160 mW; 980 nm; Er-doped fiber laser; FBG reflectivity; Q-switched operational mode; Rayleigh/SBS ring mirror; frequency localization; laser configuration; laser stability performance; low-power laser diode pumping; narrow bandwidth FBG; passive Q-switching; pump power levels; Bandwidth; Diode lasers; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser excitation; Laser stability; Mirrors; Pump lasers; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1034274

Filename

1034274