Raman Amplifiers for Telecommunications 1

1. Front Matter

   Pages vii-xxix

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2. Overview of Raman Amplification in Telecommunications

   1. Overview of Raman Amplification in Telecommunications

      • Mohammed N. Islam

      Pages 1-34

3. Raman Physics

   1. Fundamentals of Raman Amplification in Fibers

      • R. H. Stolen

      Pages 35-59

   2. Time-Division-Multiplexing of Pump Wavelengths

      • A. R. Grant, L. F. Mollenauer

      Pages 61-89

   3. Linear Noise Characteristics

      • C. R. S. Fludger

      Pages 91-120

   4. Pump Laser Diodes and WDM Pumping

      • Shu Namiki, Naoki Tsukiji, Yoshihiro Emori

      Pages 121-160

   5. Dispersion-Compensating Fibers for Raman Applications

      • L. Grüner-Nielsen, Y. Qian

      Pages 161-189

   6. New Raman Fibers

      • Evgeny M. Dianov

      Pages 191-211

   7. Noise due to Fast-Gain Dynamics

      • C. R. S. Fludger

      Pages 213-252

   8. Forward, Bidirectional, and Higher-Order Raman Amplification

      • Stojan Radic

      Pages 253-290

4. Back Matter

   Pages 291-300

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I remember vividly the ?rst time that I heard about the ?ber ampli?er. At that time, of course, it was the erbium-doped ?ber ampli?er, the predecessor of the Raman ampli?er that is the subject of this book. It was an early morning in a forgotten year in Murray Hill, New Jersey at one of our Bell Labs monthly research staff meetings. About twenty directors and executive directors of research organizations clustered around a long table in the imposing executive conference room. Arno Penzias, the vice president of research, presided at the foot of the table. Everyone who participated in those research staff meetings will long remember their culture and atmosphere. Arno would pick an arbitrary starting point somewhere around the table, and the designated person would head to the front of the table to give a short talk on “something new” in his or her research area. This ?rst speaker would invariably ?ddle helplessly with the controls embedded in the podium that controlled the viewgraph projector, but eventually we would hear machinery grinding in the back room as a large hidden mirror moved into place. We would all wait quietly, arranging and choosing our own viewgraphs from the piles that lay on the table in front of every participant.

• Dispersion
• Laser
• SSOS
• Transmission
• communication
• interference
• laser diode
• optics
• optoelectronics

• Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor

  Mohammed N. Islam

• Xtera Communications, Inc., Allen, USA

  Mohammed N. Islam

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