Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 6, 061407(2011)
Multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser using four-wave mixing effect in doped fiber
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," Chin. Opt. Lett. 9, 061407 (2011)
Category: Lasers and Laser Optics
Received: Nov. 22, 2010
Accepted: Jan. 3, 2011
Published Online: May. 13, 2011
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