Raman Amplifier performance of dispersion compensating fibers

Author

Cani, Shirley P Neves ; Freitas, Márcio ; Almeida, Renato T R ; Calmon, Luiz C.

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Fed. Univ. of Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

20-23 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

553

Abstract

This work proposes a new signal analysis to evaluate the performance of Fiber Raman Amplifiers (FRA). This new analysis is applied to single channel counter-pumped Raman Amplifiers implemented with Dispersion Compensating Fibers (DCF), configured alone or in dispersion-compensation schemes with Single Mode Fibers (SMF). Significative parameters for Raman Amplifier design as Net Gain (NG), Optical Signal to Noise Ratio (OSNR) and Eye Penalty Degradation are obtained for various pump and input signal levels. This new method permits a complete assessment to all parameters necessary for a proper fiber Raman Amplifier design.

Keywords

Raman lasers; Rayleigh scattering; laser noise; optical communication equipment; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; stimulated Raman scattering; superradiance; ASE noise; Raman noise contributions; Rayleigh scattering effects; dispersion compensating fibers; eye penalty degradation; fiber Raman amplifiers; group velocity dispersion; net gain; optical communications; optical signal to noise ratio; self phase modulation; single channel counter-pumped; single mode fibers; Optical amplifiers; Optical design; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical noise; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal analysis; Signal design; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission; US Department of Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2003. IMOC 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7824-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2003.1242637

Filename

1242637