Bit error rate evaluation of optical signals amplified via stimulated Raman process in an optical fibre
Abstract
Gain-stabilized Raman amplification in a silica fiber has been realized by means of backward pumping with a continuously mode-locked Nd:YAG laser. This enabled the first bit error rate evaluation of Raman amplified laser diode light signals. The power penalty owing to gain fluctuation has been suppressed to about 1 dB even at a gain as high as 14 dB.
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1049/el:19850135
- Bibcode:
- 1985ElL....21..191A
- Keywords:
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- Bit Error Rate;
- Electro-Optics;
- Fiber Optics;
- Light Amplifiers;
- Raman Spectra;
- Yag Lasers;
- Light Transmission;
- Neodymium Lasers;
- Power Gain;
- Transmission Lines;
- Lasers and Masers