High power, low RIN, spectrally-broadened 14xx DFB pump for application in co-pumped Raman amplification

Author

Espindola, R.P. ; Bacher, K.L. ; Kojima, K. ; Chand, N. ; SRINIVASAN, SUDARSHAN ; Cho, G.C. ; Jin, F. ; Fuchs, C. ; Milner, V. ; Dautremont-Smith, W.C.

Author_Institution

Agere Syst., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Volume

6

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

36

Abstract

We report penalty-free 10 Gb/s single-channel transmission with co-pumped distributed Raman amplification using a novel high power, low RIN (relative intensity noise) multimode 14xx DFB pump. No penalty from pump to signal RIN transfer was observed up to 5 dB of co-pumped Raman gain. More than 200 mW from a single DFB pump was launched into the fiber without any SBS (stimulated Brillouin scattering).

Keywords

Raman lasers; distributed feedback lasers; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; DFB laser pumps; DWDM; distributed Raman amplifiers; distributed feedback pump; relative intensity noise; single-channel transmission; Brillouin scattering; Diode lasers; Fabry-Perot; Optical amplifiers; Optical coupling; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989037

Filename

989037