Characterization of Brillouin dynamic grating based on chaotic laser

Abstract

The Brillouin dynamic grating (BDG) based on chaotic laser has particular advantages over the conventional BDG, for example, the creation of single and permanent BDG. To gain insight into the chaotic BDG, we theoretically investigate the reflection and gain spectra characteristics of the chaotic BDG generated in the polarization maintaining fiber. We find that the reflection spectral width of the chaotic BDG is inversely proportional to the effective grating length and the variation in the gain spectral width is negligible with respect to the effective grating length. The widths of the reflection and gain spectra are not affected by the power of the chaotic pump wave. Besides, we analyze that the occurrence of the weak BDG in the generation process of the chaotic BDG leads to the side-lobe of the reflected pulse.