• DocumentCode
    1412452
  • Title

    Accumulation of gain tilt in WDM amplified systems due to Raman crosstalk

  • Author

    Mazurczuyk, V.J. ; Shaulov, G. ; Golovchenko, E.A.

  • Author_Institution
    TyCom US Inc., Eatontown, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2000
  • Firstpage
    1573
  • Lastpage
    1575
  • Abstract
    This letter verifies experimentally that gain tilt in amplified systems due to Raman crosstalk, when separated from gainshaping effects of the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDEA), accumulates as the sum of individual span contributions. This letter also demonstrates that a property of the EDFA, believed to be spectral hole burning, acts to level the gain tilt induced by Raman crosstalk.
  • Keywords
    Raman lasers; erbium; optical crosstalk; optical fibre amplifiers; optical hole burning; wavelength division multiplexing; EDEA; Raman crosstalk; WDM amplified systems; erbium-doped fiber amplifier; gain tilt accumulation; gainshaping effects; individual span contributions; spectral hole burning; Bandwidth; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Gain measurement; Intensity modulation; Optical amplifiers; Optical crosstalk; Optical filters; Power amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/68.887761
  • Filename
    887761