title: Investigation of a multiwavelength raman fiber laser based on few-mode fiber Bragg gratings.
abstract: We propose and experimentally demonstrate a simple multiwavelength Raman fiber laser based on few-mode fiber Bragg gratings without additional multichannel filters. The multiwavelength Raman laser output has a high extinction ratio of more than 45 dB. The multiwavelength output is so stable that the peak power fluctuation is less than 0.5 dB. The number of lasing wavelengths can be adjusted, corresponding to the properties of few-mode Bragg gratings with multiple resonant wavelengths. By the thermal tuning method, the lasing wavelength of each channel can be effectively controlled, and the laser's tunability is measured to be 10.5 pm/ degrees C.
authors.affiliation: Photonics Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), 39-1 Hawolgok-Dong, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul 136-791, South Korea. yyghan@kist.re.kr
authors.forename: Young-Geun
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Sang Bae
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Dae Seung
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Youngjoo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chung