Raman amplification with reduced polarization impairments in the fibre with tailored spin profile

• Authors: Sergey Sergeyev , Sergei Popov , Ari Friberg
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

By using two-section fibre where the first section has no spin and the second one is periodically spun, we demonstrate reduced polarization dependent gain and polarization mode dispersion (0.3 dB and 0.0072 ps·km−1/2 correspondently) in a distributed fibre Raman amplifier.

Keywords

EN

polarization mode dispersion; spun fibre; fibre Raman amplifier

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 164-168

Dates

published

1 - 4 - 2010

online

30 - 1 - 2010

Contributors

author

Sergey Sergeyev

• Optics Research Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, Cork Road, Waterford, Ireland

author

Sergei Popov

• Department of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Electrum 229, SE-164 40, Kista, Sweden

author

Ari Friberg

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-009-0138-1