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Raman properties

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Photonic Crystal Fibers

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The importance of Raman amplification in optical communication systems has become more and more relevant in the last years. The gain mechanism in Raman amplification is the SRS, that is, a nonlinear scattering process by which energy is transferred from a pump wavelength to a signal one, which can be longer, in the Stokes process, or shorter, in the anti-Stokes one [5.1, 5.2]. The gain flexibility, that is, the possibility to obtain amplification at any wavelength in any fiber, is one of the key advantage of Raman fiber amplifiers. Broadband and low noise-figure Raman amplifiers can be obtained with multipumping schemes [5.3–5.5]. Moreover, distributed Raman amplification provides a significant improvement of the noise performances and an increase of the signal power budget in transmission fibers [5.6, 5.7].

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(2007). Raman properties. In: Photonic Crystal Fibers. Materials Science, vol 102. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6326-8_5

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