Extreme Statistics in Raman Fiber Amplifiers: From Analytical Description to Experiments

Kamal Hammani (1) , Antonio Picozzi (1) , Christophe Finot (1)

1 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

In this work, we investigate the emergence of rare and intense events during the Raman fiber amplification of a continuous wave. We highlight how dispersive properties and pump depletion can strongly influence the statistical properties of the amplified signal and its optical spectrum. Under certain conditions, the probability density functions of the amplified signal are calculated analytically and compared with the results of the numerical simulations. The conclusions are qualitatively validated by experiments carried out at telecommunication wavelengths.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Kamal Hammani, Antonio Picozzi, Christophe Finot. Extreme Statistics in Raman Fiber Amplifiers: From Analytical Description to Experiments. Optics Communications, 2011, 284, pp.2594-2603. ⟨10.1016/j.optcom.2011.01.057⟩. ⟨hal-00560484⟩