Title :
100 nm bandwidth flat-gain Raman amplifiers pumped and gain-equalised by 12-wavelength-channel WDM laser diode unit
Author :
Emori, Y. ; Tanaka, K. ; Namiki, S.
Author_Institution :
Opto-Technol. Lab., Furukawa Electr. Co. Ltd., Chiba, Japan
fDate :
8/5/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
100 nm bandwidth Raman amplifiers have been realised using a 12-wavelength-channel WDM pumping unit comprising high-power GRINSCH strained layer MQW BH laser diode modules. The gain flatness is less than ±0.5 dB, which is achieved through the asymmetric channel allocation of the pump and without the use of any gain equalisation filters
Keywords :
Raman lasers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; quantum well lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; EDFA; Raman amplifier; WDM unit; asymmetric channel allocation; bandwidth; gain equalisation; gain flatness; high-power GRINSCH strained layer MQW BH laser diode module; optical pumping;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19990916
