Recent studies of CW stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in single mode and multimode optical fibers

Author

Mocofanescu, A. ; Zhu, X. ; Wang, L. ; Jain, R.K. ; Shaw, K.D. ; Peterson, P. ; Gavrielides, A. ; Sharma, P.M.

Author_Institution

CHTM & ECE, New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

22-27 May 2005

Firstpage

520

Abstract

We report studies of SBS in optical fibers with the goal of using SBS phase conjugation as a passive beam combiner to build high power (>100 W cw) all fiber laser sources. We propose the development of a near infrared high power fiber laser by phasing two Er doped amplifiers in parallel using stimulated Brillouin scattering in a multimode fiber. We use a 1.5 p.m master oscillator-power amplifier configuration (MOPA) to generate SBS in a multimode fiber. The fiber amplifier consists of two Er doped multimode fiber amplifiers (diode pumped), in parallel, which will combine to generate SBS in the multimode fiber.

Keywords

erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical phase conjugation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; CW stimulated Brillouin scattering; Er doped amplifiers; fiber laser source; master oscillator-power amplifier configuration; multimode optical fibers; passive beam combiner; phase conjugation; single mode optical fibers; Brillouin scattering; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Fiber lasers; High power fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser modes; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fibers; Power lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on

Print_ISBN

1-55752-795-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2005.201833

Filename

1572899