Characteristics of multimode fiber Bragg gratings and their influences on external-cavity semiconductor lasers

Author

Yu, Hong-Gang ; Wang, Yong ; Xu, Qing-Yang ; Xu, Chang-Qing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Phys., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., Canada

Volume

24

Issue

4

fYear

2006

fDate

4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1903

Lastpage

1912

Abstract

Characteristics of multimode fiber Bragg gratings (MMFBGs) are systematically studied. Dependence of the reflection spectra of MMFBG on excitation conditions, refractive-index change profile, and grating length is investigated experimentally. It is observed that the transmission spectra of the MMFBGs are more sensitive to the polarization state of input light than that of single-mode FBGs (SMFBGs). The influences of the fabrication conditions of MMFBGs (i.e., UV-exposure time) and the rotation of MMF on the output spectra of the MMFBG-based external-cavity semiconductor lasers are then investigated. It is found that the side-mode-suppression ratio and the spatial wavelength-locking region at a specific Bragg wavelength of an MMFBG are dependent on the refractive-index change profile of the grating.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; laser cavity resonators; light polarisation; optical fibres; refractive index; semiconductor lasers; dollar state; external-cavity semiconductor lasers; multimode fiber Bragg gratings; reflection spectra; refractive index; side-mode-suppression ratio; spatial wavelength locking; transmission spectra; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Laser theory; Light sources; Optical fiber polarization; Optical reflection; Optical refraction; Semiconductor lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; External-cavity semiconductor lasers (ECSLs); fiber Bragg grating (FBG); multimode fiber (MMF); polarization; side-mode-suppression ratio (SMSR);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2006.871029

Filename

1618781