Performance of a Mostly Raman-Amplified Dispersion-Managed Fiber Loop with Polarization Scrambling

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2004-02-22

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Lenihan, A. S., Yu Sun, G. M. Carter, and C. R. Menyuk. “Performance of a Mostly Raman-Amplified Dispersion-Managed Fiber Loop with Polarization Scrambling.” In Optical Fiber Communication Conference (2004), Paper WE7, WE7. Optica Publishing Group, 2004. https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=OFC-2004-WE7.

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Polarization control
Fiber losses
Polarization
Bit error rate
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
Bandpass filters

Abstract

We have investigated the system performance of a mostly Raman-amplified, polarization scrambled recirculating fiber loop. The lone EDFA characteristics dominate the Q-factor distributions, indicating the Raman amplification is not a source of polarization dependent impairments.