Title :
Bandwidth enhanced multi-wavelength source from an SBS-assisted fiber ring laser using four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber
Author :
Fok, Mable P. ; Shu, Chester
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin
Abstract :
We report a bandwidth-enhanced multi-wavelength source from a stimulated Brillouin scattering assisted erbium-doped fiber laser using four-wave-mixing in a 35-cm highly nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber. Tuning of output wavelengths and wavelength spacing have been demonstrated.
Keywords :
bismuth compounds; erbium; fibre lasers; laser tuning; multiwave mixing; ring lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Bi2O3Jk:Er; SBS-assisted fiber ring laser; bandwidth enhanced multiwavelength source; erbium-doped fiber laser; four-wave mixing; highly nonlinear bismuth oxide fiber; size 35 cm; stimulated Brillouin scattering; wavelength spacing; Bandwidth; Birefringence; Bismuth; Brillouin scattering; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Four-wave mixing; Laser tuning; Optical fiber polarization; Ring lasers; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (140.3500) Lasers, erbium; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing; (290.5900) Scattering, stimulated Brillouin;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628216
