Multiwavelength Brillouin fiber laser with EDFA

Author

Tu, Yumeng ; Gong, Huaping ; Zhang, Leilei ; Jin, Yongxing ; Wang, Jiangfeng

Author_Institution

Inst. of Optoelectron. Technol., China Jiliang Univ., Hangzhou, China

Volume

2

fYear

2011

fDate

29-31 July 2011

Abstract

The brillouin erbium-doped fiber laser (BEFL) is a novel kind of multiwavelength fiber laser, which can produce a laser comb with spacing of 0.088nm(11GHz). In this paper, the brillouin erbium-doped fiber laser with ring cavity is studied. The different coupling ratios of coupler are selected to investigate the laser output characteristic. A stable 7-wavelengths fiber laser is obtained by optimizing the coupling ratios of couplers. With the advantage of stabilization of adjacent wavelength peak, narrow linewidth and smooth of adjacent wavelength peak, simple structure, this multi-wavelength laser can be applied in the dense wavelength division multiplexing systems.

Keywords

Brillouin spectra; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre couplers; ring lasers; EDFA; dense wavelength division multiplexing systems; fiber coupling ratio; laser comb; multiwavelength brillouin erbium-doped fiber laser; ring cavity; Fiber lasers; Laser stability; Optical coupling; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber sensors; Brillouin erbium-doped fiber laser; coupling ratio; multiwavelength;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and Optoelectronics (ICEOE), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-275-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEOE.2011.6013209

Filename

6013209