DocumentCode
2317593
Title
PMD effects in fiber-based Raman amplifiers
Author
Lin, Q. ; Agrawal, G.
Author_Institution
Rochester Univ., NY, USA
fYear
2003
fDate
23-28 March 2003
Firstpage
159
Abstract
We develop a vector theory to study the PMD effects on Raman amplification and use it to show that PMD not only makes the Raman gain to depend on signal polarization but also induces large fluctuations in the amplified signal.
Keywords
distributed amplifiers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; vectors; Raman amplification; Raman gain; fiber-based Raman amplifiers; polarisation mode dispersion; signal polarization; vector theory; Birefringence; Equations; Laser excitation; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Probability distribution; Random processes; Signal processing; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN
1-55752-746-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OFC.2003.1247566
Filename
1247566
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