Investigation of the impact of fiber Bragg grating bandwidth on the efficiency of a Raman resonator

Leanne J. Henry; Michael Klopfer; Ravinder K. Jain

doi:10.1117/12.2074642

3 March 2015 Investigation of the impact of fiber Bragg grating bandwidth on the efficiency of a Raman resonator

Leanne J. Henry, Michael Klopfer, Ravinder K. Jain

Proceedings Volume 9343, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XVII; 93431Q (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2074642
Event: SPIE LASE, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Significant spectral power leakage was found to occur around the high reflectivity fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) defining a 1121 nm Raman resonator cavity comprised of PM 10/125 germanosilicate fiber. This cavity was part of a Raman system pumped with broad linewidth 1069 nm and seeded with narrow linewidth 1178 nm. The 1069 nm upon entering the resonator cavity was Raman converted to 1121 nm which then amplified the 1178 nm as it passed through the cavity. Spectral leakage of 1121 nm light from the resonator cavity resulted in sub-optimal amplification of 1178 nm which forced usage of longer resonator cavities having a decreased threshold for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering. Upon study of 1121 nm linewidth broadening as a function of resonator length for cavities employing 3 nm FBGs, differences in the percentage of 1121 nm power spectrally leaking past the output FBG as a function of the 1121 nm intracavity power propagating in the forward direction are not experimentally discernible for resonator cavities longer than 40 m. But, for cavity’s shorter than 40 m, the percentage of 1121 nm power spectrally leaking past the output FBG decreased significantly for similar 1121 nm intracavity power levels. For all cavity lengths, a nearly linear relationship exists between percent 1121 nm power leakage and intracavity power levels. Also, cavities employing broader bandwidth FBGs experience less 1121 nm power leakage for similar 1121 nm intracavity power levels. Finally, modeling predictions of Raman system performance are greatly improved upon usage of experimentally derived effective FBG reflectivities.

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Leanne J. Henry, Michael Klopfer, and Ravinder K. Jain "Investigation of the impact of fiber Bragg grating bandwidth on the efficiency of a Raman resonator", Proc. SPIE 9343, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XVII, 93431Q (3 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2074642

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