High power L-Band Lumped Raman Fibre Amplifier with fast transient suppression using Photonic Crystal Fibre
01 January 2010
A 26dBm L-Band Lumped Raman Fibre Amplifier based on highly non-linear Ge-doped Photonic Crystal Fiber is reported. The amplifier uses commercially available pump laser diodes, and has a very fast transient suppression time of 10μs.