Abstract
An Hz-magnitude ultra-narrow linewidth single-frequency Brillouin fiber laser (BFL) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The single frequency of the laser is selected by parity-time (PT) symmetry, which consists of a stimulated Brillouin scatter (SBS) gain path excited by a 24 km single-mode fiber (SMF) and an approximately equal length loss path tuned with a variable optical attenuator (VOA). These paths are coupled through a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) into a wavelength space. Accomplishing single-frequency oscillation involves the precise adjustment of polarization control (PC) and VOA to attain the PT broken phase. In the experiment, the linewidth of the proposed BFL is 9.58 Hz. The optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) reached 78.89 dB, with wavelength and power fluctuations of less than 1pm and 0.02 dB within one hour. Furthermore, the wavelength can be tuned from 1549.9321 nm to 1550.2575 nm, with a linewidth fluctuation of 1.81 Hz. The relative intensity noise (RIN) is below -74 dB/Hz. The proposed ultra-narrow single-frequency BFL offers advantages such as cost-effectiveness, ease of control, high stability and excellent output characteristics, making it highly promising for the applications in the coherent detection.
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