Abstract
We present the experimental results for a Raman amplifier that operates at 1810 nm and is pumped by a Raman fiber laser at 1680 nm. Both the pump laser and the Raman amplifier is polarization maintaining. A challenge when scaling Raman amplifiers to longer wavelengths is the increase in transmission loss, but also the reduction in the Raman gain coefficient as the amplifier wavelength is increased. Both polarization components of the Raman gain is characterized, initially for linearly co-polarized signal and pump, subsequently linearly polarized orthogonal signal and pump. The noise performance of the amplifier is also investigated for both configurations. Our results show an on/off gain exceeding 20 dB at 1810 nm for which the obtained effective noise figure is below 3 dB.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 89150D |
| Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Volume | 8915 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISSN | 0277-786X |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 15th Photonics North Conference - Ottawa , Canada Duration: 3 Jun 2013 → 5 Jun 2013 http://www.conferium.com/WPclients/photon13/ |
Conference
| Conference | 15th Photonics North Conference |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Ottawa |
| Period | 03/06/2013 → 05/06/2013 |
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