Room temperature multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber ring laser using a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

Ailing Zhang, M. S. Demokan, Hwa Yaw Tam

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Abstract

A multiwavelength laser source is demonstrated with a high power erbium-doped fiber amplifier as the gain medium. A highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber (PCF) is inserted in the ring cavity to provide nonlinear gain by four-wave mixing. A Sagnac loop is incorporated in the ring cavity serving as a comb-like multichannel filter. The comparison between fiber ring laser without PCF and with PCF shows that the highly nonlinear PCF can generate a larger number of excited wavelengths and help stabilize the output power.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)670-674
Number of pages5
JournalOptics Communications
Volume260
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2006

Keywords

  • Fiber ring laser
  • Four-wave mixing
  • Nonlinear optics
  • Photonic crystal fiber

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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