MULTIWAVELENGTH BRILLOUIN-ERBIUM FIBER LASER GENERATION WITH DOUBLE-BRILLOUIN-FREQUENCY SPACING IN A RING CAVITY

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate the most compact and stable multiwavelength Brillouin Erbium Fibre Laser (MBEFL) by incorporating a 10-km long nonzero dispersion shifted fiber (NZ-DSF) acting as a Brillouin gain medium. This proposed configuration with only a single ring cavity is able to produce odd-order Brillouin Stokes waves appear in the backward direction with the line spacing 0.16nm (~20GHz). Brillouin pump and the even Stokes orders act as a Brillouin pump in the forward direction using a pre-amplified Brillouin power approach in a ring cavity. Up to 12 odd-order Brillouin Stokes lines are observed with the Brillouin pump power of around 8 dBm at injected 980 nm pump power of 125 mW. The anti-Stokes lines are also obtained due to four wave mixing and bidirectional operation.