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Formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser

The formation, properties and role of residual waves of a multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser (BEFL) which are responsible for the enhancement of the number of spectral lines in the BEFL are discussed and explored. The formation process which involves interplay of stimulated Brillouin scatt...

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Main Authors: Cholan, Noran Azizan, Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder, Muhammad Noor, Ahmad Shukri, Ismail, Alyani, Mahdi, Mohd Adzir
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Published: Elsevier 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37708/
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spelling my.upm.eprints.377082015-09-15T12:37:27Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37708/ Formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser Cholan, Noran Azizan Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder Muhammad Noor, Ahmad Shukri Ismail, Alyani Mahdi, Mohd Adzir The formation, properties and role of residual waves of a multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser (BEFL) which are responsible for the enhancement of the number of spectral lines in the BEFL are discussed and explored. The formation process which involves interplay of stimulated Brillouin scattering, Rayleigh scattering and four-wave mixing (FWM) in a highly nonlinear fiber is explained in this work. The properties of the residual waves (forward propagation) in terms of output spectra, output power and optical signal to noise ratio are compared with the waves of the BEFL (backward propagation) for better understanding. We find experimentally that the residual waves span over a wide band due to the mechanism of FWM and this is believed to play a key role in generating seeds for lasers in the BEFL. The present analysis of the formation, properties and role of the residual waves can well explain how the residual waves enhance the number of spectral lines and this understanding could be useful in creating quality seeds for the BEFL. Elsevier 2014-10 Article PeerReviewed Cholan, Noran Azizan and Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder and Muhammad Noor, Ahmad Shukri and Ismail, Alyani and Mahdi, Mohd Adzir (2014) Formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser. Optics Communications, 329. pp. 163-167. ISSN 0030-4018; ESSN: 1873-0310 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030401814003873 10.1016/j.optcom.2014.04.053
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description The formation, properties and role of residual waves of a multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser (BEFL) which are responsible for the enhancement of the number of spectral lines in the BEFL are discussed and explored. The formation process which involves interplay of stimulated Brillouin scattering, Rayleigh scattering and four-wave mixing (FWM) in a highly nonlinear fiber is explained in this work. The properties of the residual waves (forward propagation) in terms of output spectra, output power and optical signal to noise ratio are compared with the waves of the BEFL (backward propagation) for better understanding. We find experimentally that the residual waves span over a wide band due to the mechanism of FWM and this is believed to play a key role in generating seeds for lasers in the BEFL. The present analysis of the formation, properties and role of the residual waves can well explain how the residual waves enhance the number of spectral lines and this understanding could be useful in creating quality seeds for the BEFL.
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author Cholan, Noran Azizan
Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder
Muhammad Noor, Ahmad Shukri
Ismail, Alyani
Mahdi, Mohd Adzir
spellingShingle Cholan, Noran Azizan
Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder
Muhammad Noor, Ahmad Shukri
Ismail, Alyani
Mahdi, Mohd Adzir
Formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser
author_facet Cholan, Noran Azizan
Al-Mansoori, Mohammed Hayder
Muhammad Noor, Ahmad Shukri
Ismail, Alyani
Mahdi, Mohd Adzir
author_sort Cholan, Noran Azizan
title Formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser
title_short Formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser
title_full Formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser
title_fullStr Formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser
title_full_unstemmed Formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength Brillouin-erbium fiber laser
title_sort formation, properties and role of residual waves as seeds in multiwavelength brillouin-erbium fiber laser
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2014
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37708/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030401814003873
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