Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1539200 | Optics Communications | 2010 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We demonstrate a new and simple solution to suppress stimulated Brillouin scattering in fiber optical parametric amplifiers. Cumbersome PRBS or sinusoidal generators used to broaden the pump spectrum are replaced by a filtered microwave noise source. Stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold can be increased up to large values still keeping an excellent quality of amplification of nonreturn to zero signals. The simplicity and the performances of this setup open the way for a wide variety of applications for FOPAs.
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Authors
Arnaud Mussot, Marc Le Parquier, Pascal Szriftgiser,