Abstract
We discuss pump requirements for co-propagating distributed Raman amplification. We demonstrate a depolarized pump source with sufficiently low and stable degree of polarization. We demonstrated system benefits with no noticeable problems from pump-mediated cross-talk.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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