Ultra-long Raman fibre laser transmission links

Vasileios Karalekas; Juan Diego Ania-Castañón; Paul Harper; Sergei K. Turitsyn

doi:10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185054

Ultra-long Raman fibre laser transmission links

Vasileios Karalekas^*, Juan Diego Ania-Castañón, Paul Harper, Sergei K. Turitsyn

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Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Abstract

In this paper we review some recent results related to the application of ultra-long Raman fibre laser (URFL) cavities to quasi-lossless optical signal transmission. In an URFL, the transmission fibre itself is contained inside a laser cavity delimited by two fibre Bragg gratings, allowing for a more efficient distribution of the Raman gain to the transmitted signal. We explore the unique properties of these URFLs experimentally, showing the excellent agreement with numerical predictions. URFL schemes can provide reduced signal power excursion (<0.98 dB in 75 km of SMF), and improved OSNR performance compared to conventional distributed Raman and lumped amplification. We also analyze the possibility of achieving simultaneous spatio-spectral transparency in optical fibre. Thanks to their unique properties, URFLs are ideal candidates for quasi-lossless DWDM signal transmission, soliton transmission and nonlinear optical signal processing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICTON 2009: 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Print)	9781424448265
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185054
Publication status	Published - 18 Nov 2009
Event	ICTON 2009: 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks - Ponta Delgada, United Kingdom Duration: 28 Jun 2009 → 2 Jul 2009

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Conference	ICTON 2009: 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Ponta Delgada
Period	28/06/09 → 2/07/09

Keywords

Cross-domain transparency
Effective reflectivity
Lossless transmission
Raman amplification
Raman fibre lasers

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