Multiwavelength Fiber Laser Research Articles

O-BAND MULTI-WAVELENGTH FIBER LASER

In this paper, we demonstrated a novel multi-wavelength fiber laser system operating in the O -band (1310 nm) region. The proposed O -band multi-wavelength fiber laser uses a 1 × 24 Arrayed Waveguide Grating to generate eight output channels simultaneously with a span width of 14.05 nm. In addition to this, the tunability of a single wavelength output is also demonstrated using a 1 × 16 AWG together with an optical channel selector. A Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) operating at 1310 nm is used as the gain medium to provide the spontaneous and stimulated emissions required for the laser operation. The fiber laser has a tuning range of 1301.26 nm to 1311.18 nm with 9.92 nm span and channel spacing of 0.7 nm.

Waveband-tunable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser

A waveband-tunable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on a novel integrated structure of nonlinear polarization rotation and an unbalanced in-line Sagnac interferometer is proposed and demonstrated. An ultrabroadband lasing spectrum with 140 wavelength lasing peaks periodically distributed from 1563 to 1612.5 nm accompanied by a lasing linewidth of 0.112 nm, a free spectral range (FSR) of 0.32 nm, and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 20 dB has been achieved. A laser with high-wavelength lasing and waveband tunability was also achieved by merely adjusting the polarization controllers. The wavebands can be tuned from 1567 to 1606 nm continuously. Thirty-one lasing wavelengths in a 3 dB flattened spectrum has been achieved with a SNR of 48 dB, a linewidth of 0.03 nm, and a FSR of 0.32 nm. Good stability of the laser operating at room temperature has been verified by using an optical spectrum analyzer to measure every 2 min for a half-hour.

FWM-based multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser using Bi-EDF

We experimentally demonstrate a simple structure but efficient multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) using a 49 cm Bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber (Bi-EDF) as gain medium. The Bi-EDF provides erbium amplification and FWM effect in the cavity to generate a stable multi-wavelength comb operating in C-band region. We have achieved more than 5 lines with peak power of more than −35 dBm and channel spacing of 0.5 nm by incorporating a broadband fiber Bragg grating and polarization controller in the ring cavity.

Multiwavelength fiber laser based on a photonic crystal fiber loop mirror with cooperative Rayleigh scattering

In this work, a multiwavelength fiber Raman laser based on a highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber loop mirror is presented. A laser resonator is formed when the Raman amplification with cooperative Rayleigh scattering in a dispersion-compensating fiber is used as a distributed mirror and combined with a photonic crystal fiber loop mirror filtering structure. Stable multiwavelength lasing at room temperature is achieved due to the low temperature sensitivity of the highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber.

Multi-wavelength bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber laser based on four-wave mixing effect in photonic crystal fiber

A stable multi-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on four-wave mixing (FWM) in a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is demonstrated in this paper. The phase matching condition for four-wave mixing in the photonic crystal fiber has been enhanced using a seed signal and a polarisation controller to control the states of polarisation in the ring laser cavity. At a maximum pump power of 1480 nm, 5 lines are observed with nearly 2.15 nm spacing between the lines, and with a signal to noise ratio of more than 20 dB. The number of channels and wavelength spacing can be controlled by varying the output coupler ratio.

Triple-wavelength switchable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

Triple-wavelength switchable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser based on a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

Broad and tunable multiwavelength fiber laser at the assistance of modulation-instability-assisted four-wave mixing

Based on a piece of highly-nonlinear near-zero-dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fiber (PCF), a broadly tunable multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser is proposed by using a bi-directionally pumping scheme. This kind of PCF induces the modulation-instability-assisted four-wave mixing to generate new wavelengths. The proposed laser with excellent stability is tunable and switchable by adjusting the fiber Bragg gratings and the variable optical attenuators. The outstanding merits of the proposed multiwavelength laser are the flexible tuning and the ultrabroad spectral range over 150 nm. Especially, the proposed laser source can work at the wavelength of less than 1460 nm, overcoming the limit of gain bandwidth of erbium-doped fiber.

BRILLOUIN–RAMAN MULTI-WAVELENGTH LASER COMB GENERATION BASED ON Bi-EDF BY USING DUAL-WAVELENGTH IN DISPERSION COMPENSATING FIBER

A multi-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser (BFL) is demonstrated by using dual-wavelength fiber in a 7.7 km dispersion compensating fiber (DCF) that is incorporated in a 49 cm Bismuth erbium-doped fiber laser. The BFL operates in C-band, which is shifted by 0.08 nm and amplified by a Raman pump (RP). The threshold power for BP pumps and the Raman pump is achieved at 7 dBm and around 35 mW, respectively. The exclusive and practical benefits of using reduced high nonlinear Bismuth-erbium doped fiber ( Bi-EDF ) in implementing a four-wave mixing (FWM) method for multi-wavelengths Brillouin fiber laser (BFL) applications are experimentally demonstrated. Coupled interactions of Brillouin, Raman, and FWM scattering explain the unique feature of proposed configuration.

Dark soliton generation using dual Brillouin fiber laser in a fiber optic ring resonator

AbstractStable dark soliton pulses have been successfully generated in an erbium doped dispersion compensated fiber (DCF) using an enhanced dual Brillouin fiber laser (DBFL) scheme.Multidark soliton pulses generation in an S‐band erbium doped depressed cladding fiber (DC‐EDF) using a multiwavelength Brillouin fiber laser (MW‐BFL). Configuration has also been successfully demonstrated. The hybrid amplification from the 300 mW power of Raman pump (RP), 7.7 km long DCF, and 30 m DC‐EDF that is being pumped bidirectionally results in a stable multiwavelength Brillouin peaks in the S‐band region. Results obtained shows that the insertion of linear gain medium with bidirectional pumping of the DC‐EDF into the cavity gives significant amplification and promotes the formation of stokes peaks in the S‐band region. The number of Brillouin peaks generated is closely dependent on the DBFL and MW‐BFL configuration, the Brillouin pump (BP) signal wavelength, the BP coupling ratio, and the RP power. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 52:881–883, 2010; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.25036

基于受激布里渊散射的波长间隔可变多波长光纤激光器

A spacing-adjustable multiwavelength fiber laser based on self-excited stimulated Brillouin scattering without external Brillouin pump is proposed.The nonlinear gain of self-excited stimulated Brillouin scattering can suppress mode competition induced by homogeneous broadening of erbium-doped fiber.With the use of a birefringence fiber loop filter,the wavelength spacing can be adjusted by changing the length of the used birefringence fiber,which makes the laser more flexible.Multiwavelength output with adjustable spectral spacing from 0.8 nm to 0.076 nm is experimentally obtained.And the wavelength number increases as the decrease of wavelength spacing.

Tunable multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium ring-cavity fiber laser with short-length photonic crystal fiber

A multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium ring-cavity fiber laser utilizing 2-m erbium doped fiber (EDF) and 70-m high nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is proposed and demonstrated. The output characteristics and also the impacts of pump and Brillouin pump (BP) on the output spectra are investigated in detail. The output number and wavelength location of Brillouin lines are tunable by adjusting the power of 1465 nm pump and BP, and a 5-channel output within 11 nm (1551–1562 nm) tuning range is achieved by choosing appropriate pump power.

Tunable 19 × 10 GHz L-band FP-SOA based multi-wavelength mode-locked fiber laser

We present a multi-wavelength mode-locked fiber ring laser incorporating a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and a Fabry–Perot semiconductor optical amplifier (FP-SOA). Because the gain of the SOA is depleted by an external injection optical signal, the SOA acts as a loss modulator. The FP-SOA serves as a tunable comb filter. The presented laser source can generate 19 synchronized wavelength channels with the extinction ratio of about 21 dB, each mode-locked at 10 GHz, and mode-locked pulse width is about 40 ps. Oscillation wavelengths band can be tuned by adjusting the bias current of the SOA, and wavelength spacing also can be changed by using a tunable optical delay line (ODL) or a temperature controller. The polarization-insensitive devices ensure that the output power is rather stable. This fiber laser has potential applications in longer waveband (L-band) within the low-attenuation window.

Tunable multi-wavelength fiber lasers based on an Opto-VLSI processor and optical amplifiers

A multi-wavelength tunable fiber laser based on the use of an Opto-VLSI processor in conjunction with different optical amplifiers is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The Opto-VLSI processor can simultaneously select any part of the gain spectrum from each optical amplifier into its associated fiber ring, leading to a multiport tunable fiber laser source. We experimentally demonstrate a 3-port tunable fiber laser source, where each output wavelength of each port can independently be tuned within the C-band with a wavelength step of about 0.05 nm. Experimental results demonstrate a laser linewidth as narrow as 0.05 nm and an optical side-mode-suppression-ratio (SMSR) of about 35 dB. The demonstrated three fiber lasers have excellent stability at room temperature and output power uniformity less than 0.5 dB over the whole C-band.

Mid-IR Dual-Wavelength Difference Frequency Generation Using Fiber Lasers as Pump and Signal Light Sources

A continuous-wave mid-IR difference frequency laser source, which respectively uses an ytterbium-doped fiber laser as the pump source and a multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser cascaded with an erbium-doped fiber amplifier as the signal source, is demonstrated. Our experimental results show that two stable mid-IR radiation lines with a spacing of about 5.4 nm may be simultaneously emitted by a suitable setting the pump and signal polarization orientations. The number of the mid-IR radiation lines is limited by the quasi-phase-matching acceptance bandwidth. By changing the PPMgLN temperature the two mid-IR radiation lines may be synchronously tuned in the mid-IR range between 3295 and 3356.3 nm.

Comparison of the Stability of Ring Resonator Structures for Multiwavelength Fiber Lasers Using Raman or Er-Doped Fiber Amplification

An experimental comparison of the stability performance of two multiwavelength lasers, based on either an erbium-doped fiber or Raman amplification, is reported. Both systems employ fiber Bragg gratings to select the operating wavelengths within the resonant ring cavity. The aim of this study is to compare the output power stability of the lasers and also their optical SNR ratios.

Multiwavelength L-Band Brillouin–Erbium Comb Fiber Laser Utilizing Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror

In this paper, we demonstrate a novel multiwavelength L-band Brillouin-erbium fiber laser utilizing nonlinear amplifying loop mirror. The erbium-doped fiber section in the fiber loop mirror provides efficient amplification of Brillouin pump (BP) to generate the stimulated Brillouin scattering in the single-mode fiber coil. The laser structure can achieve symmetry breaking of the loop without requirements to an asymmetric coupler or polarization controller. The proposed fiber laser has a low threshold power of about 10 mW to create the first Brillouin-Stokes signal. The maximum number of 27 Stokes signals with a spacing of 0.089 nm is achieved by setting the BP wavelength at 1604 nm and its BP power is set at 2.2 mW.

Widely tunable sum-frequency generation in PPLN waveguide pumped by a multi-wavelength Yb-doped fiber laser

We present some experimental results on tunable sum-frequency generation in a periodically poled lithium-niobate waveguide using a multi-wavelength fiber laser pump stabilized by a nonlinear optical loop mirror. We are able to up-convert to about 629 nm a continuous-wave infrared signal varying from 1497 nm to 1525 nm. Such a wideband conversion efficiency is ensured by the multiple spectral components of the laser pump, which is controlled by an adjustable Fabry–Perot filter. Potential applications, in particular for stellar imaging, are discussed.

Multiwavelength fiber laser with ultradense wavelength spacing based on inhomogeneous loss with assistance of nonlinear polarization rotation

We demonstrate a multiwavelength fiber laser with ultradense wavelength spacing and ultrabroad bandwidth based on inhomogeneous loss mechanism with assistance of nonlinear polarization rotation. The inhomogeneous loss, implemented by incorporating a section of highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) and a Sagnac filter in the laser cavity, can balance mode competition in erbium-doped fiber and result in ultradense multiwavelength generation. The bandwidth of the multiwavelength spectrum is greatly broadened owing to the intensity-dependent loss induced by nonlinear polarization rotation. Stable multiwavelength lasing with wavelength spacing of 0.08 nm and wavelength number up to 254 is achieved at room temperature. Moreover, multiwavelength tuning is realized through modifying polarization-dependent cavity loss.

Optimization of Brillouin pump wavelength location on tunable multiwavelength BEFL

Optimization of Brillouin pump (BP) wavelength location on tunable multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser (BEFL) with BP pre-amplified technique is experimentally investigated. The tunable multiwavelength BEFL is achieved by utilization a tunable band-pass filter in a laser cavity. The optimum BP power and BP wavelength location within the filter bandwidth is determined in order to obtain the maximum stable output channels. Optimum distance of launching the BP wavelength is found at 0.80 nm shorter from the center wavelength of the filter bandwidth. 15 stable output channels are achieved from the tunable fiber laser system within the optimum range of BP power which is found to be between 5.2 to 5.7 dBm.

All-fiber birefringent filter with fine tunability and changeable spacing

A novel all-fiber birefringent filter has been proposed and demonstrated. Simulation results show that the birefringence fiber filter with one section of polarization-maintenance fiber (PMF) can be finely tuned with its free spectrum range, and the filter with two sections of PMFs can generate changeable wave-length spacing. Experiment agrees well with simulation. This filter has potential applications for flexible multiwavelength fiber laser.