Generation of broadband continuous-wave supercontinuum Raman lasing in a fiber ring cavity

Wei Zhang; Yan Wang; Li Xiao; Jiangde Peng

doi:10.1117/12.691554

4 October 2006 Generation of broadband continuous-wave supercontinuum Raman lasing in a fiber ring cavity

Wei Zhang, Yan Wang, Li Xiao, Jiangde Peng

Proceedings Volume 6351, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices III; 63511Y (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.691554
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2006, Gwangju, South Korea

Abstract

Build-up process of the broadband continuous-wave supercontinuum Raman lasing (CWSCRL) in a fiber ring cavity is reconstructed theoretically through simulation based on the generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equations in the spectral domain. The physical mechanism of the CWSCRL is revealed as a combined effect of light amplification by stimulated Raman scattering and spectral broadening by four wave mixing in the view of the spectral domain. Detailed analysis as well as experimental confirmation shows that broad and flat spectrum can be achieved mainly by assigning the pumping wavelengths so that the first Raman Stokes wavelengths occur at both sides of the zero dispersion wavelength of the highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber in the ring cavity, while optimization in pump power also matters. Different time structures of the Raman lasing are determined by the dispersion at the first-order Raman Stokes light wavelengths.

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Wei Zhang, Yan Wang, Li Xiao, and Jiangde Peng "Generation of broadband continuous-wave supercontinuum Raman lasing in a fiber ring cavity", Proc. SPIE 6351, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices III, 63511Y (4 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.691554

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