Suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in pulsed erbium-doped fiber amplifier through intensity-modulated counter-pumping
Suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in pulsed erbium-doped fiber amplifier through intensity-modulated counter-pumping
We suppress stimulated Brillouin scattering in an erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier for 50-ns-long transform-limited signal pulses by counter-directional pumping with a pulse burst. The pump pulse burst is codirectional with the parasitic Brillouin Stokes wave, which therefore undergoes cross-phase modulation and thus spectral broadening due to the intensity-modulated pump. The broadening inhibits its growth. We experimentally study the effect of pump pulse parameters and improve the SBS threshold by up to 4 dB when amplifying signal pulses at a wavelength of 1565 nm with pumping at 1536 nm.
stimulated scattering, brillouin, cross-phase modulation, optical fiber amplifers
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Achar Vasant, Harish
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Nilsson, Johan
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October 2019
Achar Vasant, Harish
833a8dce-cb98-479c-a78d-f754883ff2fd
Nilsson, Johan
f41d0948-4ca9-4b93-b44d-680ca0bf157b
Achar Vasant, Harish and Nilsson, Johan
(2019)
Suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in pulsed erbium-doped fiber amplifier through intensity-modulated counter-pumping.
Optical Engineering, 58 (10), , [102703].
(doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.10.102703).
Abstract
We suppress stimulated Brillouin scattering in an erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier for 50-ns-long transform-limited signal pulses by counter-directional pumping with a pulse burst. The pump pulse burst is codirectional with the parasitic Brillouin Stokes wave, which therefore undergoes cross-phase modulation and thus spectral broadening due to the intensity-modulated pump. The broadening inhibits its growth. We experimentally study the effect of pump pulse parameters and improve the SBS threshold by up to 4 dB when amplifying signal pulses at a wavelength of 1565 nm with pumping at 1536 nm.
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Accepted/In Press date: 5 September 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 October 2019
Published date: October 2019
Keywords:
stimulated scattering, brillouin, cross-phase modulation, optical fiber amplifers
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/435644
ISSN: 0091-3286
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