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Effect of stimulated Brillouin scattering on the gain saturation of distributed fiber Raman amplifier and its suppression by phase modulation |
Zhang Yi-Chi (张一弛)a b, Chen Wei (陈伟)a b, Sun Shi-Lin (孙世林)a b, Meng Zhou (孟洲)a b |
a Academy of Ocean Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China; b College of Opto-electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China |
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Abstract For distributed fiber Raman amplifiers (DFRAs), stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) can deplete the pump once occurring and consequently generate gain saturation. On the basis of such a theory, theoretical gain saturation powers in DFRAs with various pump schemes are obtained by calculating SBS thresholds in them, and the experimental results show that they are in excellent agreement with the calculation results. The saturation power of the DFRA with a 300 mW forward pump is as low as 0 dBm, which needs to be enhanced by phase modulation, and the effect is quantitatively studied. A simple model taking both modulation frequency and index into consideration is presented by introducing a correction factor to evaluate the effect of phase modulation on the enhancement of saturation power. Experimentally, it is shown that such a correction factor decreases as the modulation frequency increases and approaches zero when the modulation frequency becomes high enough. In particular, a phase modulation with a modulation frequency of 100 MHz and a modulation index of 1.380 can enhance the saturation power by 4.44 dB, and the correction factor is 0.25 dB, in which the modulation frequency is high enough. Additionally, the factor is 1.767 dB for the modulation frequency of 25 MHz. On this basis, phase modulations with various indexes and a fixed frequency of 25 MHz are adopted to verify the modified model, and the results are positive. To obtain the highest gain saturation power, the model is referable. The research results provide a guide for the design of practical DFRAs.
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Received: 16 February 2015
Revised: 24 April 2015
Accepted manuscript online:
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PACS:
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42.65.Es
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(Stimulated Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering)
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42.65.Dr
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(Stimulated Raman scattering; CARS)
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Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61177073) and the Major Application Basic Research Project of National University of Defense Technology, China (Grant No. ZDYYJCYJ20140701). |
Corresponding Authors:
Meng Zhou
E-mail: zhoumeng6806@163.com
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Cite this article:
Zhang Yi-Chi (张一弛), Chen Wei (陈伟), Sun Shi-Lin (孙世林), Meng Zhou (孟洲) Effect of stimulated Brillouin scattering on the gain saturation of distributed fiber Raman amplifier and its suppression by phase modulation 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 094209
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