Optimization of fiber Raman amplifier in a gain saturation regime

Adish Bindal; Surinder Singh

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015005

7 February 2012 Optimization of fiber Raman amplifier in a gain saturation regime

Adish Bindal, Surinder Singh

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 1, 015005 (February 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015005

Abstract

We investigated Raman gain spectrum and its dependence on Stoke's shift for fiber Raman amplifiers (FRAs). We determined that the Raman gain spectrum is fairly broad with a gain variation of less than 1 dB from the pump wavelength of 1440 to 1460 nm with maximum gain at 1451.2 nm, which corresponds to a Stoke's shift of 13.4 THz for the input signal source at 1550 nm. Also, the effect of both a co-propagating and counter-propagating scheme on FRAs was studied without using any booster before the Raman fiber, and it was determined that a small signal gain in the case of the counter-propagating scheme is much higher than that of the co-propagating scheme. The impact of the Raman constant (f_r) on gain saturation is also illustrated. We have demonstrated that at high f_r (<0.18), gain saturation conditions worsen. This suggests that higher saturation input powers can be achieved by selecting an f_r value of 0.18 for small-signal gains of 20 dB and an input power of −20 dBm. We have numerically simulated the gain of a FRA for different Raman fiber lengths using varying pump powers. Gain saturation was observed when the input powers exceeded 5 dBm in an amplifier with a small signal gain of 20 dB, pump power of 1.2 W, and Raman fiber length of 8 km.

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Adish Bindal and Surinder Singh "Optimization of fiber Raman amplifier in a gain saturation regime," Optical Engineering 51(1), 015005 (7 February 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.1.015005

Published: 7 February 2012

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