Brillouin/erbium fiber lasers (BEFL's) have been recently demonstrated
as a novel mode of operation of a fiber laser, BEFL's are capable of
generating optical combs with line spacings similar to 10 GHz, In this
paper, we present a detailed discussion of the operation of BEFL's, S
ingle and multiple wavelength generation is discussed, and modeling of
single wavelength operation is described.