• DocumentCode
    2317555
  • Title

    Instability in Raman amplifiers caused by distributed Rayleigh reflection

  • Author

    Chen, C.-J. ; Lee, H. ; Cheng, Y.-J.

  • Author_Institution
    Onetta, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    23-28 March 2003
  • Abstract
    We observed instability in Raman optical amplifiers caused by the Raman gain and the cavity between two mirrors formed by distributed Rayleigh reflection. Threshold pump power for the instability and limitation imposed on Raman amplifiers are derived and discussed.
  • Keywords
    Rayleigh scattering; distributed amplifiers; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; light reflection; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; Raman amplifiers instability; Raman gain; distributed Rayleigh reflection; laser cavity; pump power; Acoustic reflection; Distributed amplifiers; Equations; Mirrors; Optical amplifiers; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical reflection; Power amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-746-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2003.1247564
  • Filename
    1247564