Spacing-adjustable and wavelength-tunable multiwavelength fibre laser with nonlinear Brillouin gain and birefringence fibre loop mirror

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/19/6/064209

Abstract This paper demonstrates a room-temperature multiwavelength fibre laser with spacing-adjustability and wavelength-tunability. The nonlinear gain of self-excited stimulated Brillouin scattering can suppress mode competition induced by homogeneous broadening of Erbium-doped fibre. With the use of a birefringence fibre loop filter, the wavelength spacing can be adjusted by changing the length of the used birefringence fibre, and the lasing wavelengths can be finely tuned through modifying the filtering profile of the birefringence filter. Multiwavelength output with spectral spacing as small as 0.076~nm and a wavelength number of more than 80 has been successfully produced.

Keywords: multiwavelength fibre laser stimulated Brillouin scattering birefringence fibre loop mirror

Received: 05 September 2009
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PACS:	42.55.Wd	(Fiber lasers)
	42.60.Da	(Resonators, cavities, amplifiers, arrays, and rings)
	42.60.Fc	(Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)
	42.79.Bh	(Lenses, prisms and mirrors)
	42.79.Ci	(Filters, zone plates, and polarizers)
	42.60.Lh	(Efficiency, stability, gain, and other operational parameters)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.~60702006, 60736002, 60807014, 60837004 and 60967002), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications

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Zhang Zu-Xing(张祖兴), Wu Jian(伍剑), Xu Kun(徐坤), Hong Xiao-Bin(洪小斌), and Lin Jin-Tong(林金桐) Spacing-adjustable and wavelength-tunable multiwavelength fibre laser with nonlinear Brillouin gain and birefringence fibre loop mirror 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 064209

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