Experimental demonstration of PPLN-based double ring fiber laser and its application to 40 Gb/s wavelength conversion

Jian Wang; Junqiang Sun; Qizhen Sun

doi:10.1117/12.745610

19 November 2007 Experimental demonstration of PPLN-based double ring fiber laser and its application to 40 Gb/s wavelength conversion

Jian Wang, Junqiang Sun, Qizhen Sun

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Proceedings Volume 6782, Optoelectronic Materials and Devices II; 67821S (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.745610
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2007, Wuhan, China

Abstract

We report a novel double ring fiber laser incorporating a periodically poled LiNbO₃ (PPLN) waveguide. The double ring fiber laser is formed by placing two parallel-arranged tunable filters (TFs) followed by two variable optical attenuators (VOAs) inside the PPLN-based fiber ring cavity. Two continuous-wave (CW) lasing lights can be obtained from the double ring fiber laser with their wavelengths determined by two tunable filters. Using cascaded second-harmonic generation and difference-frequency generation (SHG+DFG), as one of the lasing waves is tuned at the quasi-phase matching (QPM) wavelength of PPLN, the third idler wave is generated. It is easy to perform tunable operation simply by changing the other lasing wavelength. Based on cascaded sum- and difference-frequency generation (SFG+DFG), it is also possible to realize tunable wavelength conversion. Both input signal and converted idler can be tuned by appropriately adjusting two lasing waves. With PPLN-based double ring fiber laser, we first demonstrate stable dual-wavelength generation with minimum wavelength spacing of 0.32 nm. Then we observe SHG+DFG-based tunable triple-wavelength generation. Finally, tunable wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s based on SFG+DFG is successfully demonstrated in the experiment. No external CW optical waves are needed, which effectively reduces the complexity and cost of the wavelength converter.

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Jian Wang, Junqiang Sun, and Qizhen Sun "Experimental demonstration of PPLN-based double ring fiber laser and its application to 40 Gb/s wavelength conversion", Proc. SPIE 6782, Optoelectronic Materials and Devices II, 67821S (19 November 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.745610

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Fiber lasers

Continuous wave operation

Second-harmonic generation

Waveguides

Optical amplifiers

Tunable filters

Data conversion

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