Multiwavelength Hybrid Fiber Raman/Parametric Linear Oscillator

Author

Lim, L.T. ; Yeo, K.S. ; Abu Bakar, M.H. ; Tamchek, N. ; Mahamd Adikan, F.R. ; Mahdi, M.A.

Author_Institution

Res. Centre of Excellence for Wireless & Photonic Network, Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Volume

7

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Aug. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

We demonstrate a linear cavity wideband multiwavelength fiber-based optical parametric oscillator consisting of four fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The FBGs center wavelengths are chosen such that they are 3.2 THz (26 nm) and 14.3 THz (115 nm) away from the parametric pump wavelength, with each located in the dominant region of parametric and Raman gain, respectively. Investigation shows that interplay between the lasing processes from the parametric and Raman gain region can be carefully adjusted to produce multiwavelength lasers spanning from 1436 to 1704 nm, with optical signal-to-noise ratio ranging from 14.3 to 54.0 dB.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Raman lasers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; Raman gain; fiber Bragg gratings; linear cavity wideband multiwavelength fiber-based optical parametric oscillator; multiwavelength hybrid fiber Raman oscillator; optical signal-to-noise ratio; parametric gain; parametric linear oscillator; Gain; Lasers; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber sensors; Oscillators; Parametric oscillators and amplifiers; fiber lasers; nonlinear optics; stimulated Raman scattering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2438443

Filename

7115015