L-band single-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser utilizing ring cavity

Author

Abu Hurera, M. Shakirin ; Ahmad Hambali, N.A.M. ; Roshidah, N. ; Zainudin, M. Safuan ; Malek, A. Zakiah ; Wahid, M.H.A. ; Mat Isa, Siti S. ; Goh Chee Seong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Microelectron. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Perlis, Arau, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

19-21 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

297

Lastpage

300

Abstract

In this paper we demonstrate a single-wavelength Brillouin Fiber laser utilizing ring cavity which operated in the L-band wavelength region. The Brillouin gain medium is provided by 4 km long of Single Mode Fiber. Based on the experimental result, it shows that the maximum output Brillouin power of 9.73 dBm with an average value of 8.5 dBm was obtained as the Brillouin pump power of 16.0 dBm and pump wavelength of 1580 nm were applied to the system. The output Brillouin Stokes power was directly dependence on the value of output Brillouin power. The optical-to-noise ratio of 43.1 dB has been generated from the system. Furthermore, without any self-lasing cavity modes activities, single-wavelength BFL is able to operate freely across L-band wavelength region.

Keywords

Brillouin spectra; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; optical pumping; Brillouin Stokes power; Brillouin gain medium; L-band single-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser; distance 4 km; optical-to-noise ratio; ring cavity; self-lasing cavity modes activities; single mode fiber; wavelength 1580 nm; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber sensors; Optical pumping; Scattering; Brillouin fiber laser; L-band; OSNR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Design (ICED), 2014 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICED.2014.7015817

Filename

7015817