• DocumentCode
    2992244
  • Title

    Mechanisms of spectral broadening in Raman fiber lasers

  • Author

    Babin, S.A. ; Churkin, D.V. ; Ismagulov, A.E. ; Kablukov, S.I. ; Podivilov, E.V.

  • Author_Institution
    Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-28 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Raman gain at high powers is shown to be saturated homogeneously due to pump depletion. At the same time single-frequency RFL generation is not possible because of four-wave mixing, that is demonstrated experimentally and theoretically.
  • Keywords
    Fiber lasers; Frequency; Gain measurement; Laser theory; Optical fiber testing; Performance gain; Power generation; Power measurement; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes, France
  • Print_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801209
  • Filename
    4801209