Statistics of polarization-dependent gain in fiber Raman amplifiers

Author

Son, E.S. ; Lee, J.H. ; Chung, Y.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

23

Issue

3

fYear

2005

fDate

3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1219

Lastpage

1226

Abstract

We developed an analytical model for the statistics of polarization-dependent gain (PDG) in both copumped and counterpumped fiber Raman amplifiers (FRAs). The validity of this model was confirmed by using experimental data and numerical simulations. The results show that the PDG in a counterpumped FRA cannot be neglected since it is only about 3 times smaller than that in a copumped FRA. Using the proposed model, we also evaluated the effects of various parameters on the PDG including the wavelength difference between the signal and pump, degree-of-polarization (DOP) of pump laser, polarization-mode dispersion, and fiber loss at the pump wavelength. In addition, the proposed model was used to analyze the requirement of the DOP of pump for the suppression of PDG within 1 dB.

Keywords

Raman lasers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; optical pumping; degree-of-polarization; fiber Raman amplifiers; fiber loss; polarization-dependent gain; polarization-mode dispersion; pump laser; Analytical models; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Numerical simulation; Optical fiber polarization; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Stimulated emission; US Department of Transportation; Degree of polarization (DOP); Raman amplifier; polarization mode dispersion (PMD); polarization-dependent gain (PDG);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2005.843499

Filename

1417018