• Optoelectronics Letters
  • Vol. 18, Issue 6, 349 (2022)
Kaiyan ZHU, Jiangyong HE, Kun CHANG, Dengke XING, Yange LIU, and Zhi WANG*
Author Affiliations
  • Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s11801-022-1173-z Cite this Article
    ZHU Kaiyan, HE Jiangyong, CHANG Kun, XING Dengke, LIU Yange, WANG Zhi. Tunable and narrow linewidth multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser using dual-wavelength pumping[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2022, 18(6): 349 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We demonstrate a multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser (BEFL) with narrow linewidth and tunable wavelength interval using dual-wavelength Brillouin pumping. The generation of multi-wavelength output in BEFL is based on the combination of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and four-wave mixing (FWM) effect in a fiber cavity. The tunable wavelength interval is determined by the artificially controlled wavelength interval of the pumping lasers. The BEFL could compress a 1 MHz pump laser to a 340 Hz Brillouin Stokes laser, which proves the BEFL has excellent capability of linewidth compression. An erbium-doped fiber pumped by 980 nm laser is inserted into the cavity to further amplify the Brillouin laser. The wideband multi-wavelength BEFL covering over 50 nm is successfully generated when the 980 nm pump power is 400 mW. These features of multi-wavelength BEFL provide an effective method for optical communication systems and optical fiber sensing.
    ZHU Kaiyan, HE Jiangyong, CHANG Kun, XING Dengke, LIU Yange, WANG Zhi. Tunable and narrow linewidth multi-wavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser using dual-wavelength pumping[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2022, 18(6): 349
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