• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 10, Issue 8, 081401 (2012)
Rugang Wang, Yuejiang Song, and Xuping Zhang
DOI: 10.3788/col201210.081401 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
Rugang Wang, Yuejiang Song, Xuping Zhang. Broadband Brillouin slow light with multiple-longitudinal-mode, tunable pump[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2012, 10(8): 081401 Copy Citation Text show less

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate broadband Brillouin slow light using a multiple-longitudinal-mode tunable fiber laser as Brillouin pump. A tunable broadband Brillouin pump with a tuning range from 1 520 to 1 555 nm is generated using a fiber ring laser with a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) as its gain medium. The pump spectrum consists of a large number of longitudinal modes separated by 6 MHz. The 3-dB bandwidth is about 11.5 GHz, and its fluctuation is less than 100 MHz within the tuning range. An 8-Gb/s data signal can be delayed by up to 83.0 ps (bit error rate < 10 9) at 17-dBm pump power.
Rugang Wang, Yuejiang Song, Xuping Zhang. Broadband Brillouin slow light with multiple-longitudinal-mode, tunable pump[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2012, 10(8): 081401
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