Surviving channel power transients in TDM-pumped lumped Raman fiber amplifier

Author

Karasek, M. ; Vojtech, J. ; Radil, J.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonics & Electron., Acad. of Sci. of the Czech Republic, Prague

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Experimental and theoretical results of all-optical gain-clamping of wide-band TDM-pumped Raman fiber amplifier consisting of 13 km of DCF counter-directionally pumped by 4 wavelengths optical unit are presented.

Keywords

Raman lasers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical pumping; optical transmitters; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network reliability; time division multiplexing; DCF; all-optical gain-clamping; channel power transients; counter-directionally pumped amplifier; distance 13 km; lumped Raman fiber amplifier; network survival; wide-band TDM-pumped amplifier; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (190.5650) Raman effect;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032277