Multiwavelength, bidirectional Brillouin/erbium fiber ring laser pumped with an intracavity fiber DFB laser

Author

Yamashita, S. ; Cowle, G.J.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

417

Abstract

Summary form only given. We present a novel configuration of a Brillouin Er-doped fibre laser (BEFL), in which Brillouin gain is initiated by an Er/sup 3+/,Yb/sup 3+/-doped fiber distributed feedback (DFB) laser in the ring cavity. The laser output features multiwavelength and bidirectional operation, with potential applications in Brillouin fiber-optic gyros as well as dense wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM).

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; erbium; fibre lasers; fibre optic gyroscopes; laser cavity resonators; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; ring lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; wavelength division multiplexing; Brillouin Er-doped fibre laser; Brillouin fiber-optic gyros; Brillouin gain; Er/sup 3+/,Yb/sup 3+/-doped fiber DFB laser; WDM; bidirectional operation; dense wavelength-division multiplexing; intracavity fiber DFB laser; laser output; laser pumping; multiwavelength bidirectional Brillouin/erbium fiber ring laser; optical fibre communication; ring cavity; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical resonators; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676432

Filename

676432