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C band single pump photonic crystal fiber Raman amplifier

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A novel twin-core photonic crystal fiber was proposed to reduce the complexity and cost of fiber Raman amplifiers. By means of a proper design, this fiber could acquire a higher and flatter Raman gain efficiency coefficient curve r R=g R/A eff over a specified band of wavelength than a conventional fiber. A Raman amplifier was designed with this novel twin-core photonic crystal fiber to operate in C band from 1530 nm to 1565 nm. A remarkable improvement over a conventional fiber Raman amplifier was obtained. It was numerically demonstrated that when pumped with a single source, an average gain of 8.7 dB with a fluctuation of less than 0.9 dB is achievable.

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  1. School of Optoelectronic Information, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

    HaiMing Jiang, Kang Xie & YaFei Wang

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60607005, 60877033, 60588502), the Science and Technology Bureau of Sichuan Province (Grant No. 2006z02-010-3) and the Youth Science and Technology Foundation of UESTC (Grant No. JX0628).

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Jiang, H., Xie, K. & Wang, Y. C band single pump photonic crystal fiber Raman amplifier. Chin. Sci. Bull. 55, 555–559 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-009-0296-y

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