Design of Flat-Gain Fiber Raman Amplifiers Using Equally Spaced Pumps with Fixed and Optimized Central Wavelength

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0269-8433

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2003-06-01

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Hu, Zhihang, Brian S. Marks, and Curtis R. Menyuk. “Design of Flat-Gain Fiber Raman Amplifiers Using Equally Spaced Pumps with Fixed and Optimized Central Wavelength.” In Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (2003), Paper CThD5, CThD5. Optica Publishing Group, 2003. https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO-2003-CThD5.

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Fiber design
Genetic algorithms
Systems design
UMBC Computational Photonics Laboratory
Raman amplifiers
Silica fibers
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)

Abstract

We analyze the gain flatness of Raman amplifiers using equally spaced pumps. We show that using an optimized central pump wavelength with equal pump spacing provides ample gain flatness and may simplify system design.