Title :
Impact of stimulated Brillouin scattering of multimode pump light within co-pumped Raman amplifiers
Author :
Emori, Yoshihiro ; Bromage, Jake ; Nelson, Lynn E. ; Namiki, Shu
Author_Institution :
Fitel Photonics Lab., Furukawa Electr. Co. Ltd., Chiba, Japan
Abstract :
We measure the signal power penalty after a co-pumped Raman amplifier from increased pump relative intensity noise due to stimulated Brillouin scattering, and propose an alternate pump reflection ratio to characterize this effect.
Keywords :
Raman lasers; laser noise; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; stimulated Brillouin scattering; alternate pump reflection ratio; copumped Raman amplifiers; multimode pump light; pump relative intensity noise; signal power penalty; stimulated Brillouin scattering;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-772-5
