Correlation of Brillouin Stokes Signals and Optical-Signal-to-Noise-Ratio in Multi-Wavelength Brillouin Fiber Laser with Additional Fiber Bragg Grating

Abstract:

We experimentally demonstrate unidirectional propagation of multi-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser system with additional fiber Bragg grating. The configuration is arranged in a ring resonator by utilizing five different Brillouin gain mediums. In this experiment, the input Brillouin pump power was varied in order to maximize the generated Brillouin Stokes signals based on the respective fiber lengths. The influence of these controllable parameters leads to the correlation between of Brillouin Stokes signals and optical-signal-to-noise-ratio. In this case, at 10 km of single mode fiber the maximum of 38 Brillouin Stokes signals were generated together with 15.07 dB of average optical-signal-to-noise-ratio when the 17 dBm Brillouin pump power was launched into the ring resonator.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 857)
• Pages: 560-564
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.857.560
• Online since: May 2016
• Authors: A. Zakiah Malek, N.A.M. Ahmad Hambali, M.H.A. Wahid, M.M. Shahimin, M.A.M. Azidin
• Keywords: Brillouin Fiber Laser, Brillouin Pump, Brillouin Stokes, Fiber Bragg Grating, OSNR, Single Mode Fiber, Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

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