Multi-wavelength Brillouin/erbium fiber laser discriminating even/odd order Stokes waves

Author

Wang-Yuhl Oh ; Je-Soo Ko ; Wanseok Seo

Author_Institution

Opt. Commun. Dept., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

308

Lastpage

309

Abstract

Summary form only given. Multi-wavelength Brillouin/erbium fiber lasers (BEFLs) with several kinds of cavity configurations have been recently reported for a number of applications. An erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) in a laser cavity of the BEFL compensates the resonator loss that is critical in ordinary Brillouin fiber lasers (BFLs), while still originating lasing action from the nonlinear Brillouin gain. We describe a novel operation scheme of a BEFL whose cavity comprises two metal coated fiber planar mirrors (FPMs) and a Sagnac reflector. By the adjustment of polarization controllers (PCs) in the Sagnac reflector, both 10 GHz and 20 GHz multi-wavelength operations can be supported.

Keywords

Brillouin spectra; erbium; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; nonlinear optics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; 10 GHz; 20 GHz; Brillouin fiber lasers; Er fiber laser; Er-doped fiber amplifiers; Sagnac reflector; cavity; cavity configurations; even order Stokes waves; even/odd order Stokes waves; laser cavity; lasing action; metal coated fiber planar mirrors; multi-wavelength operations; nonlinear Brillouin gain; odd order Stokes waves; operation scheme; polarization controllers; resonator loss; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.907048

Filename

907048