Multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser using four-wave mixing effect in doped fiber

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Abstract

We demonstrate a multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) using erbium gain and four-wave mixing (FWM) effect in a piece of erbium-doped fiber (EDF) with high erbium ion concentration. The EDF has a pump absorption rate of 24.6 dB/m at 979 nm and is bi-directionally pumped by 980-nm laser diodes. FWM effect redistributes the energy of different oscillating lines and causes multi-wavelength operation. The laser generates more than 22 lines of optical comb with a line spacing of approximately 0.10 nm at the 1569-nm region using only 1.5-m-long EDF.

Keywords

Erbium, Fiber lasers, Fibers, Pumping (laser)

Divisions

fac_eng,PHYSICS

Publication Title

Chinese Optics Letters

Volume

9

Issue

6

Publisher

Optical Society of America

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