DocumentCode
421191
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
Volume
1
fYear
2004
fDate
23-27 Feb. 2004
Firstpage
587
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2004. OFC 2004
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-772-5
Type
conf
Filename
1359585
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