• DocumentCode
    3688151
  • Title

    Correlation of double Rayleigh scattering in single-mode optical fibers

  • Author

    James P. Cahill;Weimin Zhou;Curtis R. Menyuk

  • Author_Institution
    U.S. Army Research Laboratory, UK
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    142
  • Lastpage
    143
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that double-Rayleigh-scattering-induced optical-intensity noise in separate fibers is only partially correlated. Hence, double-Rayleigh-scattering contributes to the uncorrelated fiber-induced noise that limits the performance of active feedback cancellation in two-way unidirectional RF-photonic links.
  • Keywords
    "Optical fibers","Stimulated emission","Optical feedback","Radio frequency","Standards"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323593
  • Filename
    7323593