• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 15, Issue 11, 110602 (2017)
Ting Feng1、2, Mingming Wang1, Dongliang Ding1, and X. Steve Yao1、3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Photonics Information Innovation Center, Hebei Key Lab of Optic-Electronic Information and Materials, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
  • 2e-mail: wlxyft@hbu.edu.cn
  • 3General Photonics Corporation, 5228 Edison Av., Chino, CA 91710, USA
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201715.110602 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Ting Feng, Mingming Wang, Dongliang Ding, X. Steve Yao. High OSNR and simple configuration dual-wavelength fiber laser with wide tunability in S+C+L band[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(11): 110602 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A simple configuration dual-wavelength fiber laser, by combining the first-order Brillouin laser and the residual pump laser, is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. A 1 km long single-mode fiber is used as the stimulated Brillouin scattering gain medium pumped by a narrow linewidth tunable laser source (TLS). Through simply adjusting the TLS output power, power-equalized dual-wavelength lasing can be achieved with a high optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR) of >80 dB. With the good tunability of the TLS, the dual-wavelength fiber laser has a tunable range of 130 nm, and simultaneously the beat frequency of the two lasing wavelengths can be tuned from 10.1875 to 11.0815 GHz with the tunable range of 0.8940 GHz. The high stability of the dual-wavelength operation is experimentally verified by the measured beat frequency fluctuation of 6 MHz in 1 h and power fluctuation of 0.03 dB in 2 h. The temporal characteristics of the fiber laser are also investigated experimentally. The fiber laser will find good applications in fiber sensing and microwave photonics areas.
    νB=2npvA/λp,(1)

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    Ting Feng, Mingming Wang, Dongliang Ding, X. Steve Yao. High OSNR and simple configuration dual-wavelength fiber laser with wide tunability in S+C+L band[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(11): 110602
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