• DocumentCode
    1985269
  • Title

    Pump-to-Stokes transfer of relative intensity noise in Raman fiber lasers

  • Author

    Krause, Michael ; Cierullies, Sven ; Renner, Hagen ; Brinkmeyer, Ernst

  • Author_Institution
    Technische Univ. Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2004
  • Abstract
    We investigate the effect of pump-to-Stokes relative intensity noise transfer in Raman fiber lasers on the performance of copumped Raman amplifiers. We show that the effect can be mitigated by proper design of pump lasers.
  • Keywords
    Raman lasers; laser noise; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; wavelength division multiplexing; Raman lasers; WDM; copumped Raman amplifiers; fiber lasers; optical communication systems; pump lasers; pump-to-Stokes transfer; relative intensity noise;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-777-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1361220