Spontaneous inelastic Rayleigh scattering in optical fibers

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dc.contributor.authorOkusaga, Olukayode
dc.contributor.authorCahill, James P.
dc.contributor.authorDocherty, A.
dc.contributor.authorMenyuk, Curtis
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Weimin
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-05T14:03:02Z
dc.date.available2025-06-05T14:03:02Z
dc.date.issued2013-02-15
dc.description.abstractRayleigh scattering (RS) adds noise to signals that are transmitted over optical fibers and other optical waveguides. This noise can be the dominant noise source in a range between 10 Hz and 100 kHz from the carrier and can seriously degrade the performance of optical systems that require low close-in noise. Using heterodyne techniques, we demonstrate that the backscattered close-in noise spectrum in optical fibers is symmetric about the carrier and grows linearly with both input power and fiber length. These results indicate that the RS is spontaneous and is due to finite-lifetime thermal fluctuations in the glass.
dc.description.sponsorshipWork at UMBC was supported by DARPA ARL and MPCA
dc.description.urihttps://opg.optica.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-38-4-549
dc.format.extent3 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2szx5-six1
dc.identifier.citationOkusaga, Olukayode, James P. Cahill, Andrew Docherty, Curtis R. Menyuk, and Weimin Zhou. “Spontaneous Inelastic Rayleigh Scattering in Optical Fibers.” Optics Letters 38, no. 4 (February 15, 2013): 549–51. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.000549.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.000549
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/38641
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherOPTICA
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department
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dc.rightsThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
dc.subjectOptical fibers
dc.subjectOptical systems
dc.subjectRayleigh scattering
dc.subjectInelastic scattering
dc.subjectUMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
dc.subjectWaveguides
dc.subjectSingle mode fibers
dc.subjectUMBC Computational Photonics Laboratory
dc.titleSpontaneous inelastic Rayleigh scattering in optical fibers
dc.typeText
dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0269-8433

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