The effects of the variations in fiber length,fiber mirror reflectance on efficiency and output power are experimentally investigated for erbium-doped double pass backward superfluorescent fiber sources (SFSs).The inf...The effects of the variations in fiber length,fiber mirror reflectance on efficiency and output power are experimentally investigated for erbium-doped double pass backward superfluorescent fiber sources (SFSs).The influence of fiber length on mean wavelength stability (MWS) has also been demonstrated.By incorporating a short section of un-pumped erbium-doped fiber (EDF) at the output port,the pump power dependent on MWS becomes independent of pumped EDF length.This is a novel phenomenon that hasn’t been reported up to now,and should be helpful to SFS fabrication and theory analysis.By using a fiber Michelson interferometer as spectrum slicing component,a multi-wavelength fiber source (MWFS) with ～20 channels (from 1 542 nm to 1 559 nm) is got.The MWFS has a channel spacing of ～0.8 nm which satisfies ITU-standard.The intensity fluctuation among channels is less than 0.5 dB,and the extinction ratio of all channels is above 14 dB.This kind of MWFS should be useful to wavelength division multiplexing systems.展开更多
We demonstrate a new technique to generate a high stability multi-wavelength fiber source by inserting a synchronized etalon filter in superfluorescent fiber source. Multi-wavelength source can easily be obtained over...We demonstrate a new technique to generate a high stability multi-wavelength fiber source by inserting a synchronized etalon filter in superfluorescent fiber source. Multi-wavelength source can easily be obtained over the EDF gain region with the proposed schedule. By partially feedback diffracted spontaneous emission into erbium doped fiber medium, greater output power, extinction ration and narrower linewidth for each channel than that simply using the spectrum slicing technique is easy obtained. Stab...展开更多
文摘The effects of the variations in fiber length,fiber mirror reflectance on efficiency and output power are experimentally investigated for erbium-doped double pass backward superfluorescent fiber sources (SFSs).The influence of fiber length on mean wavelength stability (MWS) has also been demonstrated.By incorporating a short section of un-pumped erbium-doped fiber (EDF) at the output port,the pump power dependent on MWS becomes independent of pumped EDF length.This is a novel phenomenon that hasn’t been reported up to now,and should be helpful to SFS fabrication and theory analysis.By using a fiber Michelson interferometer as spectrum slicing component,a multi-wavelength fiber source (MWFS) with ～20 channels (from 1 542 nm to 1 559 nm) is got.The MWFS has a channel spacing of ～0.8 nm which satisfies ITU-standard.The intensity fluctuation among channels is less than 0.5 dB,and the extinction ratio of all channels is above 14 dB.This kind of MWFS should be useful to wavelength division multiplexing systems.
文摘We demonstrate a new technique to generate a high stability multi-wavelength fiber source by inserting a synchronized etalon filter in superfluorescent fiber source. Multi-wavelength source can easily be obtained over the EDF gain region with the proposed schedule. By partially feedback diffracted spontaneous emission into erbium doped fiber medium, greater output power, extinction ration and narrower linewidth for each channel than that simply using the spectrum slicing technique is easy obtained. Stab...
