Raman fiber amplifier with signal-to-noise ratio enhancement using second Stokes control pulses and effect of double Rayleigh back-scattering

Nam Seong Kim; R. Mahendra Prabhu; Cheng Li; Jie Song; Deyuan Shen; Ken-ichi Ueda

doi:10.1117/12.380934

3 April 2000 Raman fiber amplifier with signal-to-noise ratio enhancement using second Stokes control pulses and effect of double Rayleigh back-scattering

Nam Seong Kim, R. Mahendra Prabhu, Cheng Li, Jie Song, Deyuan Shen, Ken-ichi Ueda

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Proceedings Volume 3889, Advanced High-Power Lasers; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.380934
Event: Advanced High-Power Lasers and Applications, 1999, Osaka, Japan

Abstract

A novel idea to reduce the noise level in Raman fiber amplifiers is theoretically proposed with help of Ge-doped Raman fiber amplifier and second Stokes control pulses in temporal domain. By removing an inter-pulse noise power in signal pulses at the first Stokes' wavelength that is amplified a lot normally during an optical amplification, signal-to-noise ratio for signal pulses after amplification can be enhanced. The noise power removal is performed by transferring the noise power to the second Stokes' one using the stimulated Raman scattering. In addition, we discuss several kinds of second Stokes control pulses and the effect of double Rayleigh back-scattering.

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Nam Seong Kim, R. Mahendra Prabhu, Cheng Li, Jie Song, Deyuan Shen, and Ken-ichi Ueda "Raman fiber amplifier with signal-to-noise ratio enhancement using second Stokes control pulses and effect of double Rayleigh back-scattering", Proc. SPIE 3889, Advanced High-Power Lasers, (3 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.380934

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