1.3 /spl mu/m Raman fiber amplifier pumped by chromium-doped forsterite laser

Author

Dianov, Evgeny M. ; Karpov, V.I. ; Grekov, M.V. ; Vasiliev, Sergey A. ; Medvedkov, Oleg I. ; Kamalov, V.F.

Author_Institution

Gen. Phys. Inst., Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

19-19 Sept. 1996

Firstpage

289

Abstract

A 1.3 /spl mu/m Raman fiber amplifier pumped by a chromium-doped forsterite laser and spliced with a fiber Bragg grating shows a high efficiency and noise figure of 4.7 dB/spl plusmn/0.3 dB. The role of the grating was to return the residual pump power to the Raman fiber, which substantially increased the gain efficiency. The amplifier was investigated in forward and backward pump traveling configurations. A twofold gain efficiency was achieved with the help of a fiber grating returning the residual pump back into the fiber. The forward pump configuration exhibited a higher gain efficiency and a lower NF than the backward pump configuration.

Keywords

Raman lasers; diffraction gratings; fibre lasers; laser noise; laser transitions; optical fibres; optical pumping; 1.3 mum; 4.4 to 5.0 dB; Mg/sub 2/SiO/sub 4/:Cr; Raman fiber amplifier; backward pump traveling configuration; chromium-doped forsterite laser; fiber Bragg grating; forward pump configuration; gain efficiency; high efficiency; noise figure; residual pump power; twofold gain efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on

Conference_Location

Oslo, Norway

Print_ISBN

82-423-0418-1

Type

conf

Filename

715747