Effect of polarization on remote Raman amplification in WDM-PON

  • Authors:

  • Kavan K. Acharya;M. Yasin Akhtar Raja

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Physics & Optical Science, Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC;Department of Physics & Optical Science, Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

  • Venue:
  • HONET'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on High capacity optical networks and enabling technologies
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we report the results of our study on the effect of polarization of the pump on the downstream data signal in a remote Raman amplified WDM-PON. It was observed that for linearly polarized pump, if the azimuth angle was increased beyond 50°, the BER of the downstream signal fell below the threshold of 1e-12. The maximum gain due to remote Raman amplification was obtained at the azimuth angle of 5°.