Title :
Instability in Raman amplifiers caused by distributed Rayleigh reflection
Author :
Chen, C.-J. ; Lee, H. ; Cheng, Y.-J.
Author_Institution :
Onetta, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Abstract :
We observed instability in Raman optical amplifiers caused by the Raman gain and the cavity between two mirrors formed by distributed Rayleigh reflection. Threshold pump power for the instability and limitation imposed on Raman amplifiers are derived and discussed.
Keywords :
Rayleigh scattering; distributed amplifiers; laser cavity resonators; laser stability; light reflection; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pumping; Raman amplifiers instability; Raman gain; distributed Rayleigh reflection; laser cavity; pump power; Acoustic reflection; Distributed amplifiers; Equations; Mirrors; Optical amplifiers; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Optical reflection; Power amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1247564
