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Raman amplification with reduced polarization impairments in the fibre with tailored spin profile

  • Sergey Sergeyev EMAIL logo , Sergei Popov and Ari Friberg
From the journal Open Physics

Abstract

By using two-section fibre where the first section has no spin and the second one is periodically spun, we demonstrate reduced polarization dependent gain and polarization mode dispersion (0.3 dB and 0.0072 ps·km−1/2 correspondently) in a distributed fibre Raman amplifier.

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Published Online: 2010-1-30
Published in Print: 2010-4-1

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