Modeling and Demonstration of Dual Wavelength All-Fiber Linear Cavity Laser

Author

Yao, Yu ; Chen, Xiangfei ; Dai, Yitang ; Xie, Shizhong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A numerical model of all fiber linear cavity laser is presented. This model includes the spatial hole burning effect, which can be used to support the dual wavelength operation in homogeneous gain medium. A dual-wavelength single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) based on a simple linear cavity is also demonstrated experimentally. The laser output with a wavelength spacing of 27pm is heterodyned on a photo-detector to generate a microwave signal of 3.389 GHz

Keywords

diffraction gratings; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical hole burning; photodetectors; 3.389 GHz; EDFL; SLM; dual wavelength all-fiber linear cavity laser; erbium-doped fiber laser; microwave signal generation; millimeter wave generation; phase shift fiber grating; photo-detector; single-longitudinal-mode; spatial hole burning; wavelength spacing; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Filters; Laser modes; Masers; Microwave generation; Numerical models; Optical design; Reflectivity; Ring lasers; Dual-wavelength fiber laser; gain grating; microwave/millimeter wave generation; phase shift fiber grating; single longitudinal mode; spatial hole burning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2006. MWP '06. International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Grenoble

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0203-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0204-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2006.346499

Filename

4153801