Title :
Phase locking of nanosecond pulses of stimulated Brillouin scattering in a two-element fiber laser array
Author :
Kong, Fanting ; Liu, Liping ; Sanders, Charlotte ; Chen, Y.C. ; Lee, Kotik K.
Author_Institution :
City Univ. of New York, New York
Abstract :
Phase locking of nanosecond Brillouin backscattering pulses has been demonstrated through diffractive coupling and spatial filtering mechanisms in a two- element fiber laser array, despite the stochastic dynamics of short nonlinear pulse generation.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; nonlinear optics; spatial filters; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stochastic processes; diffractive coupling; nanosecond stimulated Brillouin backscattering pulses; phase locking; spatial filtering; stochastic dynamics; two-element fiber laser array; Backscatter; Brillouin scattering; Diffraction; Fiber lasers; Filtering; Optical arrays; Optical coupling; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Phased arrays;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452481
