Multi-wavelength Erbium-doped fiber laser with single mode fiber and high nonlinear fiber

Author

Pinghe Wang ; Yong Liu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Opto-Electron. Inf., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2013

fDate

26-28 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A multi-wavelength Erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser based on four-wave-mixing is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The 5km single mode fiber in the cavity enhances the four-wave-mixing to suppress the homogenous broadening of the erbium-doped fiber and get the stable multi-wavelength comb. The lasing stability is investigated. When the pump power is 300mW the fiber laser has 5-lasing lines and the maximum fluctuation of the output power is about 3.18dB. At the same time, a laser with 110m high nonlinear fiber (HNFL) is demonstrated. When the pump power is 300mW it has 7-lasing lines (above -30dBm) and the maximum fluctuation is 0.18dB.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; laser stability; multiwave mixing; spectral line broadening; four wave mixing; high nonlinear fiber; homogenous broadening supression; lasing stability; multiwavelength fiber laser; power 300 mW; single mode fiber; size 110 m; size 5 km; stable multiwavelength comb; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser stability; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2013 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOCN.2013.6617205

Filename

6617205