Multi-Wavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Ring Laser Cavity Setup with a Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror

Subject Areas : Majlesi Journal of Telecommunication Devices

Hamidreza Zare Harofteh ¹ , Sharifeh Shahi ² , Mohammad Kanani Jazi ³ , Hossein Saghafifar ⁴ , Mohammad Javad Yahyapour ⁵

1 - Applied Sciences Institute, Optics and Laser Research Group, Malek ashtar University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Department of Electrical Engineering, Optical Telecommunication group, Islamic Azad University, Majlesi Branch, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Optics and Laser Research Group, Optics Industry of Iran, Isfahan, Iran
4 - Applied Sciences Institute, Optics and Laser Research Group, Malek ashtar University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
5 - Applied Sciences Institute, Optics and Laser Research Group, Malek ashtar University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2013-12-27 Accepted : 2013-12-27 Published : 2014-06-01

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Abstract :

Fiber Ring Lasers employed for generation of the multi-wavelength laser with so narrow bandwidth. In this research, the setup of multi-wavelength fiber ring laser source is demonstrated as well as eight figure cavity that by using a piece of Polarization Maintaining Fiber (PMF) in Sagnac filter achieved four stable and constant amplitude wavelengths with same spacing at room temperature. Also, we observed more than 250 narrow line width modes by using the 23 km length of Single Mode Fiber (SMF-28) at C and L communication windows which the stability of modes because of increasing the length was more less in compare to PMF Sagnac.

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