Intensity and phase noise caused by stimulated Brillouin scattering

Wei Chen; Zhou Meng

doi:10.1117/12.885377

17 May 2011 Intensity and phase noise caused by stimulated Brillouin scattering

Wei Chen, Zhou Meng

Proceedings Volume 7753, 21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors; 77532G (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885377
Event: 21st International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS21), 2011, Ottawa, Canada

Abstract

Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) induced noise is harmful to long-haul fiber sensing systems. We use the localized fluctuating model to study SBS in a single-mode fiber (SMF) and obtain the relation between the intensity fluctuations and the input power. Experimental results show that relative intensity noise (RIN) is small when the input power is below the SBS threshold and increases dramatically at first and then becomes flat gradually when the input power is above the threshold, which agrees well with the theory. We also use an unbalanced Michelson interferometer with the optical path difference (OPD) of 1 m as well as the phase-generated carrier (PGC) technique to measure the phase noise and find that the curves of phase noise versus input power at different frequencies are similar to that of RIN. We also infer that the increase of the phase noise is mainly due to the broadening of the linewidth caused by SBS.

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Wei Chen and Zhou Meng "Intensity and phase noise caused by stimulated Brillouin scattering", Proc. SPIE 7753, 21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 77532G (17 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885377

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