DocumentCode
565426
Title
Suppression of Polarization Dependence of Gain in distributed Raman amplifier system with compact pump depolarizer
Author
Kawakami, Hiroto ; Mori, Kunihiko ; Yamamoto, Shuto ; Miyamoto, Yutaka
Author_Institution
NTT Network Innovation Labs., NTT Corp., Yokosuka, Japan
fYear
2012
fDate
29-31 May 2012
Firstpage
52
Lastpage
53
Abstract
This paper tackles the Polarization Dependence of Gain (PDG) in distributed Raman amplifier (DRA) system with orthogonal polarization multiplexed pump lights. We show that polarization mode dispersion in transmission line degrades the orthogonality of pump lights and induces PDG. We propose a compact pump depolarizer to suppress PDG.
Keywords
Raman lasers; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; optical pumping; transmission lines; wavelength division multiplexing; DRA system; PDG; compact pump depolarizer; distributed Raman amplifier system; orthogonal polarization multiplexed pump lights; polarization dependent gain; polarization mode dispersion; transmission line; Internet;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Internet (COIN), 2012 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Yokohama, Kanagawa
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1654-5
Type
conf
Filename
6245937
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