RIN Mitigation and Transmission Performance Enhancement with Forward Broadband Pump

M. Tan, P. Rosa, S. T. Le, V. V. Dvoyrin, Md. A. Iqbal, S. Sugavanam, S. K. Turitsyn, P. Harper

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Abstract

We demonstrate that using a broadband, first order, and coherent pump laser enables effective and efficient forward-pumped distributed Raman amplification for long-haul transmission systems, thanks to the simultaneous suppression of ASE noise and RIN-related penalty. We show in both experiments and simulation that this scheme extends the reach of 10 × 120 Gb/s DP-QPSK WDM transmission by a minimum of 50%, compared with low RIN Bi-doped fibre laser and other commercially available pump lasers. Moreover, it requires very low forward pump power, and maintains uniform/symmetric signal power distribution which allows effective nonlinearity compensation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)254-257
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume30
Issue number3
Early online date16 Dec 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2018

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Funding: UK EPSRC Programme Grant EP/J017582/1 and EP/L000091/1(UNLOC and PEACE), FP7 ITN programme ICONE (608099), MSCA IF grant SIMFREE (748767)

Keywords

  • Optical fibre communication
  • optical amplifiers

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