Raman Amplification in WDM Optical Communication Systems: A System Perceptive

Abstract

AbstractStatistical study on stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) crosstalk has been done by many researchers while ignoring pulse walk-off effect due to analytically unsolvable nonlinear coupled equations. To our knowledge there is no treatise, which deals with pulse walk-off effect except statistically for few cases in case of wideband WDM Raman amplification systems. In this paper, we investigate the effect of group velocity dispersion induced crosstalk. We have tried to solve nonlinear coupled Raman gain equations for few channels by using the numerical technique called finite difference method. Finally we have provided results of the simulation for few cases. It is ever known that pulse walk-off effect (time-dependent effect) is responsible for transient effects hence the modeling has also done in this paper to simulate the effect of abrupt channel addition and removal response.