Performance comparisons of a linear BEFL with and without a tunable bandpass filter

Author

Mansoor, Amilia ; Othman, Marinah ; Rashid, Hairul Azhar Abdul ; Yusoff, Zulfadzli

Author_Institution

Center of Adv. Devices & Syst., Multimedia Univ., Cyberjaya, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

1-3 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

37

Abstract

The paper presented the performance comparison of a linear BEFL with and without tunable bandpass filter (TBF). The comparisons are done in terms of number of Stokes, peak power flatness and tuning range. For the same pump power, the BEFL with a TBF produces 15 Stokes compared to 11 for that of without a TBF. Besides, peak power flatness was also improved for BEFL with a TBF. By tuning the center wavelength of the TBF, the BEFL operation can be tuned to any wavelength within 40nm range in comparison to only 5nm for the BEFL without a TBF as the laser operation is dictated by the self-lasing cavity mode.

Keywords

Brillouin spectra; band-pass filters; erbium; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; laser tuning; optical fibre filters; optical pumping; Stokes number; TBF; center wavelength tuning; laser operation; linear BEFL; peak power flatness; pump power; self-lasing cavity mode; tunable bandpass filter; tuning range; Cavity resonators; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Optical fibers; Scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1461-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2012.6379521

Filename

6379521