Fiber design for broad-band gain-flattened Raman fiber amplifier

We report here a novel fiber design which has inherently flattened effective Raman gain spectrum, with a relative 3-dB bandwidth of /spl sim/90 nm. Gain-flattened broad-band amplification can be achieved in any wavelength band by suitably choosing the fiber parameters and the pump wavelength. Simulations show that the proposed fiber also has high negative dispersion coefficient /spl sim/(-300 to -600) ps/km /spl middot/ nm in the operating range of wavelength. Hence, the designed fiber serves the purpose of a gain-flattened broad-band amplifier and dispersion compensator.