Brillouin fiber laser with significantly reduced gain medium length operating in L-band region
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2009
Abstract
Brillouin fiber laser (BFL) is demonstrated using a piece of photonic crystal fiber (PCF) in conjunction with a Bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber (Bi-EDF) as the gain media with a simple ring resonator. The proposed BFL operates at wavelength of 1574.08 nm, which is 0.08 nm shifted from the Brillouin pump wavelength with a maximum peak power of 8dBm. The BFL has a side mode suppression ratio and 3dB bandwidth of approximately 23 dB and 0.02 nm respectively limited by the optical spectrum analyzer resolution. The BFL is also stable at room temperature and compact due to the use of only 20 m long of PCF and 215 cm long of Bi-EDF.
Keywords
Fiber lasers, Fibers, Nonlinear optics, Optical communication, Spectrum analyzers
Divisions
fac_eng,PHYSICS
Publication Title
Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters
Volume
8
Publisher
Electromagnetics Academy