Abstract
This paper proposes a spectral-broadening scheme for suppressing the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in fibers using multi-harmonic linear frequency modulation (LFM). The frequency tuning range of the LFM lasers is further expanded by incorporating sinusoidal phase modulation (PM) to achieve more effective spectrum spreading. Furthermore, the ability of multi-harmonic-LFM light sources to suppress SBS is investigated using the effective Brillouin gain spectra (BGS). Meanwhile, the experimental results reveal that at a 3 dB bandwidth of ∼480 MHz, the SBS thresholds of multi-harmonic-LFM light sources were improved by 8.36 times compared to a single-frequency laser, and by appropriately 69% compared to the LFM light sources. Because the spectra of the multi-harmonic-LFM light sources and the multifrequency-sinusoidal-PM light sources have a near-rectangular shape, the capacity of the two schemes to suppress SBS is comparable, which verifies the advantages of the multi-harmonic-LFM light sources in suppressing SBS. Our study also investigated the effects of frequency intervals between each chirp harmonic and the chirp period of multi-harmonic-LFM light sources on the suppression of SBS, which provides guidance for optimizing multi-harmonic-LFM light sources.
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