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Multiple Brillouin Stokes Generation Utilizing a Linear Cavity Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser

  • AL-Mansoori, Mohammed Haydar (Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia) ;
  • Noordin, Nor Kamariah (Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia) ;
  • Saripan, M. Iqbal (Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia) ;
  • Mahdi, Mohd Adzir (Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia)
  • Published : 2008.03.31
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Abstract

This paper reports the design of a multiwavelength fiber laser source that utilizes a linear cavity of hybrid Brillouin/Erbium fiber laser (BEFL). The output power, threshold power and free running cavity modes were investigated against the pump powers. The structure exhibited low threshold operation of 4 mW at 2.3 mW injected Brillouin pump power. The optimization of Brillouin pump wavelength, power and Erbium gain led to a maximum possible number of channels generated. Simultaneous and stable operation of 21 channels with 10.88 GHz channels spacing were obtained from this architecture at 1 mW injected Brillouin pump power and 90 m W Erbium doped fiber pump power in the 1555 nm region.

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