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The stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) process limits the maximum power that can be transmitted in low-loss optical fibers in multigigabit fiber optic systems. It is shown that recently observed large optical fluctuations resulting from SBS degrade the signal-to-noise ratio and consequently the system bit error rate. Since SBS has potentially the lowest power threshold of all fiber nonlinearities: it is critical that it be addressed. It is shown that the SBS threshold can be increased by providing a low frequency sine wave dither to the laser pre-bias current. It is found that a modulation index as low as 2% can quadruple the SBS threshold. Measurements with a 1.5-μm externally modulated laser at 2.5 Gb/s indicate that this dither in no way degrades the performance in the presence of chromatic dispersion
Published in:
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
(Volume:11
,
Issue:
11
)
Date of Publication: Nov 1993
- Page(s):
- 1721 - 1728
- ISSN :
- 0733-8724
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 4660193
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/50.251167
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Current Version :
- 06 August 2002
- Issue Date :
- Nov 1993
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
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