Title :
Pump-to-signal RIN transfer in fiber OPAs
Author :
Kalogerakis, G. ; Marhic, M.E. ; Wong, K. K Y ; Kazovsky, L.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
Pump to signal RIN transfer in fiber OPAs is investigated theoretically and experimentally. For a 20 dB gain, signal RIN is larger than pump RIN by a factor ranging from 2 to 14.
Keywords :
optical fibre amplifiers; optical noise; optical parametric amplifiers; fiber OPA; optical parametric amplifiers; pump-to-signal RIN transfer; relative intensity noise;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
