High-performance discrete amplifier based on a second-order fiber Raman oscillator

Author

Faralli, Stefano ; Kim, Pilhan ; Cantini, Claudia ; Bolognini, Gabriele ; Sacchi, Giovanni ; Park, Namkyoo ; Pasquale, Fabrizio Di

Author_Institution

Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna di Studi, Univ. e Perfezionamento, Pisa, Italy

Volume

17

Issue

11

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2298

Lastpage

2300

Abstract

We propose a second-order counterpumped Raman ring fiber oscillator for high gain and low noise discrete Raman amplification with enhanced robustness to wavelength-division-multiplexing channels add-drop operations. Bit-error-rate measurement at 10 Gb/s shows negligible penalties up to 20-dB net gain.

Keywords

Raman lasers; error statistics; laser cavity resonators; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; ring lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 20 dB; Raman amplification; Raman oscillator; add-drop operations; bit-error-rate measurement; discrete amplifier; fiber oscillator; high gain amplification; high-performance amplifier; low noise amplification; ring oscillator; second-order oscillator; wavelength-division-multiplexing channels; Doped fiber amplifiers; Gain measurement; Noise robustness; Operational amplifiers; Optical amplifiers; Optical noise; Power amplifiers; Ring oscillators; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; Optical communication systems; Raman amplifiers; Rayleigh scattering; relative intensity noise (RIN);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.857235

Filename

1522299