• DocumentCode
    1828503
  • Title

    Pump to signal RIN transfer in silicon Raman amplifiers

  • Author

    Sang, Xinzhu ; Tien, En-Kuang ; Akdas, Metin ; Dimitropoulos, Dimitri ; Jalali, Bahram ; Boyraz, Ozdal

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Irvine, CA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    The pump to signal RIN transfer in chip-scale silicon Raman amplifiers is investigated in the presence of nonlinear losses. Pump RIN frequency components as high as 1.5 GHz will be transferred to the signal.
  • Keywords
    Raman lasers; integrated optics; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre losses; optical pumping; nonlinear loss; relative intensity noise transfer; silicon Raman amplifiers; Absorption; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical devices; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Stimulated emission; (140.4480) Optical amplifiers; (190.5650) Raman effect; (230.7370) Waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2606-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-865-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5032797