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This work investigates two types of multiwavelength Brillouin fiber laser configurations. These configurations are ring-cavity multi-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser employs fiber Bragg grating and S-shaped multiwavelength Brillouin fiber laser. The two arrangements comprise of 10 km long single mode fiber as a gain medium and operate in the C-band region. Replacing the S-Shaped with Bragg grating fiber has led to a loss reduction in the ring-cavity multiwavelength Brillouin fiber laser and subsequently generated higher number Brillouin Stokes (BS) signals. The maximum of 33 BS signals with ∼0.08 nm (∼10 GHz) spacing is obtained. Optical signal to noise ratio of about 15 dB is observed at output coupling ratio of 70%, when 1550 nm of Brillouin pump is launched into the ring-cavity multiwavelength Brillouin fiber laser employs fiber Bragg grating. In contrast, due to the limitation of high cavity losses, only 17 BS signals with ∼0.16 (20 GHz) spacing are generated from the S-shaped multi-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser. These findings contribute new insights and profiles of the multi-wavelength Brillouin fiber laser employs fiber Bragg grating that has the capability to reduce cavity losses while generating a high number of Brillouin Stokes signals.