Title :
Multiwavelength generation of Stokes and anti-Stokes lines in Brillouin/erbium fiber laser with a Sagnac loop mirror
Author :
Lim, Dong Sung ; Lee, Hak Kyu ; Kim, Kyoung H. ; Ahn, Joon Tae ; Jeon, Min Young ; Lee, El-Hang
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
We report a novel multiwavelength laser scheme of an Er-doped Brillouin fiber laser with a Sagnac loop mirror and a metal-coated planar mirror. This initiates the four-wave mixing (FWM) process, which produces both red-shifted Stokes lines and blue-shifted anti-Stokes lines
Keywords :
Brillouin spectra; erbium; fibre lasers; laser mirrors; multiwave mixing; red shift; spectral line shift; Er-doped Brillouin fiber laser; Sagnac loop mirror; Stokes lines; anti-Stokes lines; blue-shifted anti-Stokes lines; four-wave mixing; metal-coated planar mirror; multiwavelength generation; multiwavelength laser scheme; red-shifted Stokes lines; Brillouin scattering; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Frequency; Mirrors; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical films; Ring lasers; Sagnac interferometers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.737903
