Stability Comparison of Two Ring Resonator Structures for Multiwavelength Fiber Lasers Using Highly Doped Er-Fibers

Author

Pérez-Herrera, Rosa Ana ; Quintela, M. Angeles ; Fernández-Vallejo, Montserrat ; Quintela, Antonio ; López-Amo, Manuel ; Lòpez-Higuera, Jose Miguel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Public Univ. of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Volume

27

Issue

14

fYear

2009

fDate

7/15/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2563

Lastpage

2569

Abstract

An experimental comparison of stability between two different fiber laser topologies is carried out. The lasers are based on ring resonators that include highly doped Er-fibers. Both topologies use fiber Bragg grating reflectors in order to select the emission wavelengths. The experimental results confirms that the novel topology based on fiber optic circulators arranged in a hybrid serial-parallel configuration offers better stability and a higher optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) than the simpler one based on a parallel configuration.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; erbium; fibre lasers; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; mirrors; optical circulators; ring lasers; JkJk:Er; fiber Bragg grating reflector; fiber optic circulator; highly doped erbium-fiber; laser stability; laser topology; multiwavelength fiber laser; ring resonator structure; Erbium-doped fiber (EDF); fiber Bragg grating (FBG); optical fiber amplifier; optical fiber ring laser; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2008.2011820

Filename

4840364