Influence of pump-to-signal RIN transfer on noise figure in silicon Raman amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 2021-2023

  Sang, Xinzhu ^a,b   Dimitropoulos, Dimitrios ^c   Jalali, Bahram ^c   Boyraz, Ozdal ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier noise; Nonlinear optics; Raman scattering; Silicon on insulator technology

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; MICROSENSORS; NOISE FIGURE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NONMETALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVEGUIDES;

AMPLIFIER NOISE; CHIP-SCALE; COUNTER-PROPAGATING; FREE CARRIER LIFE TIME; IN CHIPS; IN FIBERS; NONLINEAR LOSS; PUMP CONFIGURATIONS; RAMAN AMPLIFIERS; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SIGNAL WAVES; SILICON WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 59649102772     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2005844     Document Type: Article

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