Tunable range enhancement of Brillouin-erbium fiber laser utilizing Brillouin pump preamplification technique
Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 11, pp. 7649-7654 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.007649
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Abstract
We demonstrate an enhanced multiwavelength L-band Brillouin-erbium fiber laser (BEFL), in which the Brillouin pump is pre-amplified before entering the single-mode fiber. The Brillouin pump pre-amplification provided by the Erbium-doped fiber has created higher intensity of Brillouin Stokes line generated in the single-mode fiber that leads to the homogenous gain saturation. Thus the built-up of self-lasing cavity modes is suppressed in a wider wavelength range. In contrary to the conventional linear-cavity BEFL, the number of output channels is enhanced within the same tuning range.
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OCIS Codes
(060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(290.5900) Scattering : Scattering, stimulated Brillouin
ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics
History
Original Manuscript: March 10, 2008
Revised Manuscript: May 4, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: May 5, 2008
Published: May 12, 2008
Citation
Mohammed Haydar Al-Mansoori and Mohd A. Mahdi, "Tunable range enhancement of Brillouin-erbium
fiber laser utilizing Brillouin pump preamplification
technique," Opt. Express 16, 7649-7654 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-11-7649
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