Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 6, 061407(2011)

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

N. S. Shahabuddin, Z. Yusoff, H. Ahmad, and S. W. Harun
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  • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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    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.

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    N. S. Shahabuddin, Z. Yusoff, H. Ahmad, S. W. Harun. Multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser using four-wave mixing effect in doped fiber[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2011, 9(6): 061407

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    Paper Information

    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Nov. 22, 2010

    Accepted: Jan. 3, 2011

    Published Online: May. 13, 2011

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    DOI:10.3788/COL201109.061407

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