Investigation of a tunable and switchable multi-wavelength bidirectional Brillouin-erbium fiber ring laser

• Autorzy: Wang F. , Yuan R. Y.

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DOI

10.37190/oa210306

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

A multi-wavelength bidirectional Brillouin-erbium fiber ring laser with switchable Brillouin frequency spacing (BFS) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. In the presented Brillouin-erbium ring laser, including an optical amplifier and a highly nonlinear fiber, and without any optical isolator, due to Rayleigh scattering, stimulated Brillouin scattering, and cascaded four-wave mixing initiated successively by the Brillouin pump (BP) light, the odd- and even-order Stokes lines are generated and circulate in the opposite direction in the ring cavity. The BP light and Stokes-induced Rayleigh backscattering light also simultaneously circulate in the ring cavity. Only by adjusting BP power, the gain competition between Brillouin based Stokes and cavity modes’ oscillation can be controlled, the laser output can be conveniently switched between single BFS and odd- or even-order double BFS. In addition, under the certain BP power conditions, the proposed multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser also can realize switchable odd- or even-order Stokes generation and Stokes generation with single BFS, with an increasing wavelength number in turn, only by simply adjusting pump power of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier. Stability and wavelength tunability of the proposed multi-wavelength bidirectional Brillouin-erbium fiber ring laser are also investigated, respectively.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Rayleigh scattering; stimulated Brillouin scattering; four-wave mixing; laser; laser optics

• Wydawca: Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej
• Czasopismo: Optica Applicata
• Rocznik: 2021
• Tom: Vol. 51, nr 3
• Strony: 375--389
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 23 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Wang F.

• School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

autor

Yuan R. Y.

• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China

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