Impact of four wave mixing on OSNR of multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser

Author

Cholan, N.A. ; Al-Mansoori, M.H. ; Noor, A.S.M. ; Ismail, A. ; Mahdi, M.A.

Author_Institution

Wireless & Photonics Network Res. Center, Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

28-30 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

83

Abstract

An experimental investigation on the optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) of a multiwavelength Brillouin erbium fiber laser (BEFL) without and with four wave mixing (FWM) effect is demonstrated. The BEFL output before and after an 11 km dispersion compensating fiber is compared in terms of OSNR. It is found that FWM does affect the OSNR of the channels. For the first few channels, the OSNR is lower as compared with the case without FWM effect but for the last few channels, the OSNR is higher.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; multiwave mixing; optical fibre dispersion; BEFL; FWM effect; OSNR; dispersion compensating fiber; distance 11 km; four wave mixing; multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser; optical signal-to-noise ratio; Circulators; Dispersion; Noise; Optical coupling; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical reflection; Brillouin erbium fiber laser; four wave mixing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics (ICP), 2013 IEEE 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6073-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICP.2013.6687074

Filename

6687074