Brillouin distributed sensing; Brillouin lasers; fiber ring cavity; self-injection locking; Brillouin; Brillouin laser; Distributed sensing; Fiber ring cavity; Injection locked; Injection-locking; Lasings; Self-injection locking; Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials; Condensed Matter Physics; Computer Science Applications; Applied Mathematics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Abstract :
[en] We report on a low-cost Brillouin fiber ring laser pumped from an actively stabilized self-injection locked distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode. Locking of the commercial DFB laser to a ~11-m-length high-Q-factor fiber-optic ring cavity leads to ~10,000-fold narrowing of the laser Lorentzian linewidth down to 400 Hz. Such pump laser operation inside the ring cavity forces the cavity to host Brillouin lasing enabling the laser threshold power as low as ~1.5 mW. The laser operation is perfectly stabilized by active optoelectronic feedback driven by a simple microcontroller. The laser delivers radiation at Stokes frequency with the Lorentzian linewidth reduced down to ~75 Hz and a phase noise less than –100 dBc/Hz (>30 kHz). The reported laser configuration is of great interest for many laser applications where a narrow sub-kHz linewidth, simple design and low cost are important.
Disciplines :
Electrical & electronics engineering Physics
Author, co-author :
Bueno-Escobedo, J.L.; Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
Miridonov, Serguei V.; Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
Maya-Sánchez, Ma Carmen; Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
Korobko, Dmitry A.; Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation
Zolotovskii, Igor O.; Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation
Fotiadi, Andrei ; Université de Mons - UMONS ; Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation ; Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the RAS, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Language :
English
Title :
Stabilizing Brillouin Lasing in High-Q Optical Fiber Cavity pumped from self-injection locked DFB laser
Publication date :
25 May 2022
Event name :
Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics X
Event date :
09-05-2022 => 20-05-2022
Main work title :
Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics X
Editor :
Sciamanna, Marc
Publisher :
SPIE
ISBN/EAN :
978-1-5106-5158-6
Peer review/Selection committee :
Editorial reviewed
Research unit :
F108 - Electromagnétisme et Télécommunications
Research institute :
R400 - Institut de Recherche en Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux
Funders :
City of Strasbourg CNRS iCube IdEx University of Strasbourg The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Universite de Strasbourg
Funding text :
The work was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Megagrant Program, project #075-15-2021-581) and the Russian Science Foundation (project 18-12-00457P). The construction of the thermal stabilization system was supported by the Russian Fund of Basic Research (19-42-730009 р_а).
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