Title :
Polarization-dependent gain due to signal-signal Raman interaction in low-PMD fiber
Author :
Zhou, Xiang ; Magill, Peter
Author_Institution :
AT&T Labs. Res., Middletown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We study polarization-dependent gain (PDG) due to signal-signal Raman interaction (SSRI). We find that SSRI-induced PDG can be significant when the fiber polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) is low. If the PMD from the discrete optical components is also small, the accumulated PDG grows almost linearly with the number of the span.
Keywords :
Raman spectra; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; discrete optical components; low-PMD fiber; polarization-dependent gain; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion; signal-signal Raman interaction; wavelength-division multiplexing; Birefringence; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical losses; Page description languages; Polarization mode dispersion; Statistics; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2004.833870
