31 May 2017 Tunable multiwavelength SLM fiber laser based on Rayleigh and Brillouin scattering effects
Huang Xiong, Ruiwen Zhang, Guodong Chen, Junqiang Sun
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Abstract
A widely tunable multiwavelength single-longitudinal-mode fiber laser based on Rayleigh and Brillouin scattering effects is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The amplified Rayleigh backscattering of seed light serves as the original Brillouin pump while the Rayleigh and Brillouin scattering in the single mode fiber provide randomly distributed feedback. When the seed light wavelength varies in C-band with the power of 8  dBm, the fiber laser can generate more than nine lasing lines with narrow linewidth and their maximum power fluctuation is less than 2.4 dB. The lasing lines are stable, rigidly separated by 10.852 GHz.
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Huang Xiong, Ruiwen Zhang, Guodong Chen, and Junqiang Sun "Tunable multiwavelength SLM fiber laser based on Rayleigh and Brillouin scattering effects," Optical Engineering 56(5), 056113 (31 May 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.56.5.056113
Received: 15 January 2017; Accepted: 15 May 2017; Published: 31 May 2017
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KEYWORDS
Fiber lasers

Laser scattering

Rayleigh scattering

Scattering

Spatial light modulators

Light scattering

Backscatter

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