Stable multiwavelength semiconductor optical amplifier‐based fiber laser using a 2‐mode interferometer

Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor Diode Laser

Stable and uniform multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser using nonlinear polarization rotation.

A novel and simple technique, based on nonlinear polarization rotation (NPR) effect, to generate stable multiwavelength oscillations in an erbium-doped fiber laser is proposed and successfully demonstrated. The NPR effect effectively induced intensity- and wavelength-dependent loss to alleviate mode competition caused by homogeneous gain broadening in erbium-doped fibers. Up to 28-wavelength la...

Multiwavelength optical fiber refractive index profiling

Fourier transform spectroscopy and interference microscopy are combined to provide the world's first multi-wavelength optical fiber refractive index profile (RIP) measurements. The RIP and its spectral dependence are obtained with submicron spatial resolution across an octave stretching from about 500 nm to the 1 micron operating band of Yb-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers. In contrast to comm...

Multiwavelength generation in a random distributed feedback fiber laser using an all fiber Lyot filter.

Multiwavelength lasing in the random distributed feedback fiber laser is demonstrated by employing an all fiber Lyot filter. Stable multiwavelength generation is obtained, with each line exhibiting sub-nanometer line-widths. A flat power distribution over multiple lines is obtained, which indicates that the power between lines is redistributed in nonlinear mixing processes. The multiwavelength ...

Multiwavelength C+L band laser source using Linear Optical Amplifier

A scheme for generating multiwavelength laser source based on a linear optical amplifier (LOA) is demonstrated for potential applications in dense-wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) communication systems. The laser output shows up to 80 laser lines (SNR at least 20 dB) with 0.4 nm channel spacing covering C and L band. Simultaneous tuning of muti-wavelengths is also demonstrated.