Evaluation of Performance Penalty from Pump-Signal Overlap in S+C+L band Discrete Raman Amplifiers

Asif Iqbal,Lukasz Krzczanowicz,Ian Phillips,Paul Harper,Wladek Forysiak

Evaluation of Performance Penalty from Pump-Signal Overlap in S+C+L band Discrete Raman Amplifiers

2020

Asif Iqbal
Lukasz Krzczanowicz
Ian Phillips
Paul Harper
Wladek Forysiak

We experimentally investigate the transmission penalty on 30GBaud PM-QPSK signals due to adjacent Raman pumps in a 15dB gain, 150nm S+C+L-band discrete Raman amplifier. We report 4nm guard-band around the Raman pump ensures negligible Q2-penalty.

Keywords:

raman amplifiers
L band
Optics
Engineering
Optical amplifier
Transmission (telecommunications)
raman pump
Raman spectroscopy
Signal processing

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