Multi-wavelength Brillouin-Erbium Fiber Laser Utilizing a Fiber Bragg Grating Filter with Intra-Cavity Pre-Amplified Brillouin Pump

Author

Nasir, M. N Mohd ; Yusoff, Z. ; Al-Mansoori, M.H. ; Rashid, H. A Abdul ; Choudhury, P.K.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonics Res. & Applic., Multimedia Univ., Cyberjaya

fYear

2008

fDate

26-28 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

177

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate an efficient multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser with a pre-amplified Brillouin pump within a Fabry-Perot cavity. With the utilization of a fiber Bragg grating filter as one of the fiber loop mirrors, up to 25 stable Brillouin Stokes lines could be generated with channels spacing of 0.088 nm. The architecture of the design needs only 3 dBm of the Brillouin pump power and 90 mW of the 980 nm laser diode to produce the 25 maximum output channels.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Brillouin spectra; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; optical filters; optical pumping; Brillouin pump power; Fabry-Perot cavity; channel spacing; fiber Bragg grating filter; fiber loop mirrors; intra-cavity pre-amplified Brillouin pump; laser diode; multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser; power 90 mW; stable Brillouin Stokes; wavelength 980 nm; Brillouin scattering; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fabry-Perot; Fiber lasers; Filters; Laser excitation; Optical fibers; Power generation; Pump lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing; fiber Bragg grating; fiber lasers; multi-wavelength laser source; nonlinear Brillouin scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunication Technologies 2008 and 2008 2nd Malaysia Conference on Photonics. NCTT-MCP 2008. 6th National Conference on

Conference_Location

Putrajaya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2214-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2215-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCTT.2008.4814265

Filename

4814265