• DocumentCode
    452202
  • Title

    Tuning Speed Requirements for Time-Division Multiplexed Raman Pump Lasers

  • Author

    Winzer, Peter J. ; Bromage, Jake ; Kane, Richard T. ; Sammer, Peter A. ; Headley, Clifford

  • Author_Institution
    Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2002
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    System penalties from temporal gain variations in time-division multiplexed Raman pumping are experimentally quantified. For a 100 km span with 15 dB on/off Raman gain, the pump frequency repetition rate should exceed 10 kHz for less than 0.5 dB penalty
  • Keywords
    Raman lasers; laser tuning; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; time division multiplexing; 10 kHz; 100 km; Raman pump lasers; fiber Raman-resonator lasers; on/off Raman gain; temporal gain variations; time-division multiplexing; tuning speed requirements;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Copenhagen
  • Print_ISBN
    87-90974-63-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1600992