Abstract—A wideband spectrum-sliced ASE source is demonstrated using a 1480nm pumped Bismuth-based Erbium-doped fiber and a thermal controlled fiber loop mirror. The spacing of output comb can be tuned by adjusting the birefringence and the effective length of the polarization maintaining fibers (PMFs) in the loop mirror. By changing the temperature of the PMF segments, the spacing can be tuned from 1.69nm to 4.35nm corresponding to a number of channels of 52 to 21 within a wavelength range from 1530nm to 1620nm as the birefringence axis for both PMFs is adjusted to be perpendicular to each other. The maximum 300 channels with 0.300nm comb spacing can be obtained when both PMFs are arranged in such a way that the beam orthogonal components of both PMF are parallel.
Index Terms—Temperature sensor, bismuth-doped fiber, amplifier.
X. S. Cheng is with the Photonics Research Center, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and SEGi University College, Taman Sains Selangor, 47810 Selangor, Malaysia (e-mail: xscheng@segi.edu.my)
H. Ahmad is with the Photonics Research Center, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (e-mail: xiausan@gmail.com).
S. W. Harun is with the Photonics Research Center, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (e-mail: swharun@um.edu.my).
Cite: X. S. Cheng, H. Ahmad, and S. W. Harun, "Temperature Sensitive Wideband Spectrum-sliced ASE," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 21-23, 2012.
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