EYDFL giving higher efficiency and smaller power fluctuation as compared to EDFL

Author

Sinivasagam, V. ; Abdullah, M.K. ; Isnin, F. ; Ahmad, H.

Author_Institution

Telekom Malaysia Photonics Res. Centre, Malaya Univ., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

120

Abstract

An erbium doped fiber laser (EDFL) system could provide a good output signal with a wide tuning range. Nevertheless, any increment in its output signal power is at the expense of efficiency and power fluctuation. This comparative study shows that an erbium/ytterbium doped fiber laser (EYDFL) system gives higher efficiency with reduced power fluctuation while maintaining the tuning range of the former system. The efficiency of the EYDFL system easily exceeds 300% higher and the power fluctuation was reduced by up to 43.8% as compared to the EDFL system

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser tuning; optical fibre testing; ytterbium; EDFL; EDFL system; EYDFL; efficiency; erbium doped fiber laser; erbium/ytterbium doped fiber laser; output signal; output signal power; output signal tuning range; power fluctuation; tuning range; Chemical lasers; Energy exchange; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fluctuations; Laser modes; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Optical fiber communication; Pulsed laser deposition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Semiconductor Electronics, 1998. Proceedings. ICSE '98. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4971-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMELEC.1998.781162

Filename

781162