Raman Fiber Amplifier With Integrated Cooler

Raman Amplifier with Integrated Dispersion-Compensating Fiber

It has been more than 20 years since fiber-optic communication became practicable, and there has been a continuing stream of technological breakthroughs. The increased diffusion of the Internet has seen the rapid introduction of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems. With the burgeoning increases in communications capacity in recent years 1), attention has been focused on Raman ...

Noise Suppression Phenomenon in Fiber Raman Amplifier

The problem of small bit error rate is actual in fiber Raman amplifiers. Our experimental data on the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) with backward pumping as a base of optical noise evaluation are presented in this paper. Raman gain spectrum for useful Stokes low-powered signal is calculated and compared with obtained spectrum of non-coherent ASE noise. It is shown that output optical sig...

A Cooler Raman Laser

P ower dissipation, which results in heat generation in electronic chips, is the number one difficulty facing the semiconductor industry. The problem is so severe that it threatens to halt the huge development that has been enjoyed since the microprocessor industry’s inception — a doubling in processor performance roughly every 18 months, which was predicted by the celebrated Moore’s law. And t...

Analysis and Investigation of Noise Figure of Fiber Raman Amplifier

Raman amplifiers are widely used for high capacity long haul communication systems. One of the main reason for which it can be used is its improved noise figure. In this paper noise figure of Raman amplifiers is studied and analysed for different pumping schemes. The main sources of noise and their effects on the noise figure are discussed and the methods to reduce the noise figure are proposed.

Low cost incoherent pump solution for Raman fiber amplifier