• DocumentCode
    2845855
  • Title

    Gain statistics of a fiber optical Raman amplifier with a temporally incoherent pump

  • Author

    Xu, Y.Q. ; Murdoch, S.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We investigate the statistics of the gain fluctuations of a Raman fiber amplifier pumped with a temporally incoherent pump. We present a simple theory whose predictions are in good agreement with our numerical and experimental results.
  • Keywords
    Raman spectra; amplification; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; statistical analysis; fiber optical Raman amplifier; gain statistics; temporally incoherent pump; Gain; Gain measurement; Mathematical model; Nonlinear optics; Optimized production technology; Probability distribution; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621309
  • Filename
    5621309