Inverse-Gaussian apodized fiber Bragg grating for microwave generation

Author

Lin, Bo ; Tjin, Swee Chuan ; Zhang, Han ; Tang, Dingyuan ; Liang, Sheng ; Hao, Jianzhong ; Dong, Bo

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Centre, Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

An erbium-doped fiber ring laser is presented. It consists of an inverse-Gaussian apodized fiber Bragg grating acting as a dual-wavelength passband filter, and an unpumped erbium-doped fiber serving as a saturable absorber. The proposed fiber laser can produce two stable lasing lines in which each of them operates in single-longitudinal-mode (SLM). This dual-wavelength SLM laser can generate a microwave signal at 10.502 GHz by beating the dual wavelengths at a photodetector.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Gaussian processes; erbium; fibre lasers; microwave generation; microwave photonics; optical fibre filters; optical saturable absorption; JkJk:Er; dual-wavelength passband filter; erbium-doped fiber ring laser; frequency 10.502 GHz; inverse-Gaussian apodized Fiber Bragg grating; microwave generation; photodetector; saturable absorber; single-longitudinal-mode; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber gratings; Masers; Microwave filters; Optical fiber polarization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2010

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9882-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PGC.2010.5705930

Filename

5705930