Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 13, Issue 6, 409(2017)

Tunable self-seeded multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser based on few-mode fiber filter

Hui ZOU*... Lei MA, Hui XIONG, Yun-shan ZHANG and Chun-xiao LIU |Show fewer author(s)
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  • School of Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
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    A tunable self-seeded multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser (BEFL) is proposed and demonstrated based on a few-mode fiber filter (FMFF) with varying temperature. The FMFF configuration is a section of uncoated few-mode fiber (FMF) sandwiched between two up-tapers. As the temperature varies from 25 °C to 125 °C, the transmission spectrum of FMFF moves towards the longer wavelength. The self-excited Brillouin pump is internally achieved by cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in the single mode fiber (SMF). Then employing the FMFF temperature variation characteristics in the ring cavity fiber laser, the multi-wavelength of the output laser can be tuned, and the tunable range is about 8.0 nm. The generation of up to 15 Brillouin Stokes wavelengths with 16 dB optical signal- to-noise ratio (OSNR) is realized.

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    ZOU Hui, MA Lei, XIONG Hui, ZHANG Yun-shan, LIU Chun-xiao. Tunable self-seeded multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser based on few-mode fiber filter[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2017, 13(6): 409

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    Paper Information

    Received: Sep. 3, 2017

    Accepted: Oct. 9, 2017

    Published Online: Sep. 13, 2018

    The Author Email: Hui ZOU (huizou@njupt.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-017-7205-4

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