Compact Bi-EDF-Based Brillouin Erbium Fiber Laser Operating at the 1560-nm Region

A single-frequency Brillouin erbium fiber laser (BEFL) is demonstrated operating at the 1560-nm region using a simple ring resonator with a very short piece of bismuthbased erbium-doped fiber (Bi-EDF) for the first time. A 49-cm-long Bi-EDF is used to provide both nonlinear gain and linear gain to g...

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Main Authors: Harun, Sulaiman Wadi, Parvizi, Roghaieh, Shahi, Sharifeh, Ahmad, Harith
Format: Article
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2009
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/19775/
https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2009.2037246
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Institution: Universiti Malaya
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Summary:A single-frequency Brillouin erbium fiber laser (BEFL) is demonstrated operating at the 1560-nm region using a simple ring resonator with a very short piece of bismuthbased erbium-doped fiber (Bi-EDF) for the first time. A 49-cm-long Bi-EDF is used to provide both nonlinear gain and linear gain to generate a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and to amplify the generated SBS, respectively. The BEFL operates at 1559.49 nm with a peak power of -4 dBm and a side-mode suppression ratio of 14 dB when the Brillouin pump (BP) and 1480-nm pump powers are fixed at 6 dBm and 144 mW, respectively. The BP wavelength is also tunable within a wavelength range from 1558.8 to 1560.0 nm.