Raman Amplifiers for Telecommunications 2

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

   PDF

2. Subsystems and Modules

   1. S-Band Raman Amplifiers

      • Mohammed N. Islam

      Pages 301-352

   2. Raman Fiber Lasers

      • C. Headley, M. Mermelstein, J.-C. Bouteiller

      Pages 353-382

   3. Distributed Raman Transmission: Applications and Fiber Issues

      • Alan Evans, Andrey Kobyakov, Michael Vasilyev

      Pages 383-412

   4. Hybrid EDFA/Raman Amplifiers

      • Hiroji Masuda

      Pages 413-443

   5. Wideband Raman Amplifiers

      • Mohammed N. Islam, Carl De Wilde, Amos Kuditcher

      Pages 445-490

3. Systems Design and Experiments

   1. Multiple Path Interference and Its Impact on System Design

      • J. Bromage, P. J. Winzer, R.-J. Essiambre

      Pages 491-568

   2. Raman Impairments in WDM Systems

      • P. M. Krummrich

      Pages 569-593

   3. Ultra-Long-Haul Submarine and Terrestrial Applications

      • Howard Kidorf, Morten Nissov, Dmitri Foursa

      Pages 595-625

   4. Ultra-Long-Haul, Dense WDM Using Dispersion-Managed Solitons in an All-Raman System

      • Linn F. Mollenauer

      Pages 627-672

   5. 40 Gb/s Raman-Amplified Transmission

      • L. Nelson, B. Zhu

      Pages 673-721

4. Back Matter

   Pages 723-732

   PDF

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
• 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

Policies and ethics