An analytical method for determining comprehensive impact of Rayleigh backscattering on performance of systems with distributed Raman amplifiers

Author

Zhang, Wei ; Chen, Jian ; Peng, Jiangde ; Liu, Xiaoming ; Fan, Chongchsng

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

350

Abstract

An analytical method to determine the impact of amplified spontaneous Raman scattering and double Rayleigh backscattering noise in distributed Raman amplifiers (DRAs) is derived. By this method, two applications of DRAs are discussed. Firstly, DRAs are used as preamplifiers before receivers. Secondly, DRAs are used as preamplifiers of EDFAs in repeated systems. In both cases, calculations show that there is an optimal Raman pump power at which the system has the best performance

Keywords

Raman lasers; Rayleigh scattering; laser noise; optical fibre amplifiers; optical receivers; EDFAs; Rayleigh backscattering; amplified spontaneous Raman scattering; distributed Raman amplifiers; double Rayleigh backscattering noise; optimal Raman pump power; preamplifiers; receiver terminals; repeated systems; Acoustic reflection; Automatic speech recognition; Backscatter; Distributed amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical reflection; Performance analysis; Propagation losses; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.969319

Filename

969319