Title :
Stimulated Brillouin scattering for improvement of microwave fibre-optic link efficiency
Author :
Williams, Keith J. ; Esman, R.D.
Author_Institution :
Opt. Tech. Branch, Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC
fDate :
11/10/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Stimulated Brillouin scattering is used to increase the modulation depth of a weakly-modulated optical signal by rejecting the forward travelling carrier power. For an input power of eight times the stimulated Brillouin threshold an improvement of 8 dB in link loss from 0.1 to 20 GHz is achieved
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; optical modulation; stimulated Brillouin scattering; 0.1 to 20 GHz; forward travelling carrier power; input power; link loss; microwave fibre-optic link efficiency; modulation depth; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Brillouin threshold; weakly-modulated optical signal;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19941344
