Multiwavelength Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Based on a Nonlinear Hi-Bi Fiber Loop Mirror

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Feng, Xinhuan; Tam, H. Y. (Photonics Research Centre and Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China)
Lu, C.; Wai, P. K. A. (Photonics Research Centre and Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China)
Tang, D. Y. (School of Electrical and electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Abstract:
A novel multiwavelength erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) based on a nonlinear high-birefringence fiber loop mirror (HiBi-FLM) is proposed and demonstrated. Up to 50-wavelength lasing operation with wavelength spacing of 0.8 nm has been achieved.