A Novel Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser source (EDFL)

Author

Ali, Sellami ; Al-Khateeb, Khalid A S ; Bouzid, Belloui

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Theor. Sci., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

fYear

2008

fDate

13-15 May 2008

Firstpage

538

Lastpage

541

Abstract

A novel configuration of a new erbium doped fiber laser (EDFL) is constructed and analyzed. It utilizes embedded fiber-loop mirrors, tunable filters with a linear laser oscillation. Implementing the linear cavity fiber loop (LCFL) as a new configuration using three circulators and two tunable band-pass filters (TBF), the output power in the single wavelength (SW) laser was improved. The output power of the proposed laser system is more than 18 dBm at 1560 nm. The side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) in the output power in this experiment was also high, greater than 64 dB. It is found that the double filtering technique in the proposed configuration enables the system to achieve higher power and lower amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise levels.

Keywords

band-pass filters; circulators; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical filters; optical waveguide components; oscillations; circulators; double filtering technique; embedded fiber-loop mirrors; erbium-doped fiber laser source; linear cavity fiber loop; linear laser oscillation; lower amplified spontaneous emission noise levels; power output; side mode suppression ratio; single wavelength laser; tunable band-pass filters; tunable filters; Band pass filters; Circulators; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser modes; Mirrors; Nonlinear filters; Power generation; Power lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Communication Engineering, 2008. ICCCE 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1691-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1692-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCE.2008.4580661

Filename

4580661