• DocumentCode
    1087298
  • Title

    Impact of stimulated Brillouin scattering on fibre Raman amplifiers

  • Author

    Ferreira, M.F. ; Rocha, J.F. ; Pinto, J.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Aveiro Univ., Portugal
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    17
  • fYear
    1991
  • Firstpage
    1576
  • Lastpage
    1577
  • Abstract
    The occurrence of stimulated Brillouin scattering is shown to determine a saturation of the Raman gain and of the amplified spontaneous Raman scattered power at lower levels. Reducing the effective core area to potentially increase the Raman gain has a negligible effect above a given value of the amplifier length, whereas for small amplifier lengths it always determines a reduction of the on/off ratio.
  • Keywords
    Raman lasers; fibre lasers; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Raman gain; amplifier length; effective core area; fibre Raman amplifiers; gain saturation; on/off ratio; stimulated Brillouin scattering;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19910987
  • Filename
    132814