Title :
Pump mode structure dependence of the effect of stimulated Brillouin scattering on the gain of forward pumped Raman fibre amplifier
Author :
Hamidi, S. ; Simeonidou, D. ; Siddiqui, A.S. ; Chaleon, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
Abstract :
The authors report experimental results on the variation of forward linear Raman gain with pump power for different number of longitudinal modes of the pump laser. The experimental results are in agreement with numerical simulations using a shooting model. The results presented have significant implications for optimising the design of semiconductor pump lasers for Raman fibre amplifiers
Keywords :
Raman lasers; fibre lasers; optical pumping; semiconductor junction lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; design optimisation; effect of stimulated Brillouin scattering; forward linear Raman gain; forward pumped Raman fibre amplifier; pump mode structure dependence; semiconductor pump lasers; shooting model;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Amplifiers for Communications, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
