Reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a Brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a Brillouin pump preamplification technique

This paper presents the characteristics of a multiwavelength L-band Brillouin–erbium comb fiber laser with a preamplified Brillouin pump (BP) power technique at low pumping powers. The issue of erbium-doped fiber gain depletion and Brillouin gain saturation are resolved by the proposed structure. Fo...

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Main Authors: Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder, Mahdi, Mohd Adzir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Optical Society of America 2009
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16460/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16460/1/Reduction%20of%20gain%20depletion%20and%20saturation%20on%20a%20Brillouin.pdf
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author Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder
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description This paper presents the characteristics of a multiwavelength L-band Brillouin–erbium comb fiber laser with a preamplified Brillouin pump (BP) power technique at low pumping powers. The issue of erbium-doped fiber gain depletion and Brillouin gain saturation are resolved by the proposed structure. For long single-mode fiber length, the Stokes line emission occurs at low pumping powers because of the high strength of spontaneous Brillouin scattering, which provides a strong seed for coherent regenerative amplification of the Stokes line in the laser cavity. The laser structure achieves a low threshold power of 17 mW and is able to produce high number of output channels at low pumping powers. We experimentally show that the fiber laser structure can produce up to 37 channels at 55 and 0.045 mW of 1480 nm pump and BP powers, respectively.
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spelling upm-164602015-11-26T07:48:00Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16460/ Reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a Brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a Brillouin pump preamplification technique Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder Mahdi, Mohd Adzir This paper presents the characteristics of a multiwavelength L-band Brillouin–erbium comb fiber laser with a preamplified Brillouin pump (BP) power technique at low pumping powers. The issue of erbium-doped fiber gain depletion and Brillouin gain saturation are resolved by the proposed structure. For long single-mode fiber length, the Stokes line emission occurs at low pumping powers because of the high strength of spontaneous Brillouin scattering, which provides a strong seed for coherent regenerative amplification of the Stokes line in the laser cavity. The laser structure achieves a low threshold power of 17 mW and is able to produce high number of output channels at low pumping powers. We experimentally show that the fiber laser structure can produce up to 37 channels at 55 and 0.045 mW of 1480 nm pump and BP powers, respectively. Optical Society of America 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16460/1/Reduction%20of%20gain%20depletion%20and%20saturation%20on%20a%20Brillouin.pdf Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder and Mahdi, Mohd Adzir (2009) Reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a Brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a Brillouin pump preamplification technique. Applied Optics, 48 (18). pp. 3424-3428. ISSN 1559-128X; ESSN: 2155-3165 https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-48-18-3424 10.1364/AO.48.003424
spellingShingle Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder
Mahdi, Mohd Adzir
Reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a Brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a Brillouin pump preamplification technique
title Reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a Brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a Brillouin pump preamplification technique
title_full Reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a Brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a Brillouin pump preamplification technique
title_fullStr Reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a Brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a Brillouin pump preamplification technique
title_full_unstemmed Reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a Brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a Brillouin pump preamplification technique
title_short Reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a Brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a Brillouin pump preamplification technique
title_sort reduction of gain depletion and saturation on a brillouin–erbium fiber laser utilizing a brillouin pump preamplification technique
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16460/
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16460/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16460/1/Reduction%20of%20gain%20depletion%20and%20saturation%20on%20a%20Brillouin.pdf