Raman amplification of solitons in a fiber optic ring

Author

Levy, G.F.

Author_Institution

Balliol Coll., Oxford

Volume

14

Issue

1

fYear

1996

fDate

1/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

76

Abstract

This paper is concerned with computations involving the Raman amplification of a recirculating soliton pulse within a fiber optic ring. The pump source is a CW laser and the effects of pump depletion, pump walk off and self-/cross-phase modulation are included in the analysis. It is found that the combination of pump depletion and pump cross-phase modulation can cause the Stokes pulse to be shifted in time. The build up of recirculating pump power also affects the soliton peak power and pulse width

Keywords

Raman lasers; fibre lasers; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical pumping; optical solitons; phase modulation; ring lasers; CW laser; Raman amplification; Stokes pulse shift; cross-phase modulation; fiber optic ring; fibre lasers; optical solitons; pulse width; pump depletion; pump source; pump walk off; recirculating pump power; recirculating soliton pulse; self-phase modulation; soliton peak power; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical computing; Optical fibers; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Pump lasers; Solitons; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.476139

Filename

476139