Effect of polarization on remote Raman amplification in WDM-PON

Author

Acharya, Kavan K. ; Raja, M. Yasin Akhtar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Opt. Sci., UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA

fYear

2009

Firstpage

189

Lastpage

192

Abstract

In this paper, we report the results of our study on the effect of polarization of the pump on the downstream data signal in a remote Raman amplified WDM-PON. It was observed that for linearly polarized pump, if the azimuth angle was increased beyond 50Â°, the BER of the downstream signal fell below the threshold of 1e-12. The maximum gain due to remote Raman amplification was obtained at the azimuth angle of 5Â°.

Keywords

amplification; error statistics; optical fibre networks; polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; WDM-PON; linearly polarized pump; optical fiber communication; passive optical networks; polarization effect; remote Raman amplification; wavelength division multiplexing; Channel spacing; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber polarization; Optical network units; Optical pumping; Passive optical networks; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Time division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing; Degree of Polarization; Optical Fiber Communication; Passive Optical Network; Raman Amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET), 2009 6th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Alexandria

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5992-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HONET.2009.5423072

Filename

5423072