Quantum limits of optical amplification

Prem Kumar; Renyong Tang; Paul Voss

doi:10.1364/OAA.2004.OTuA4

Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications/Integrated Photonics Research
Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2004),
paper OTuA4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OAA.2004.OTuA4

Quantum limits of optical amplification

Prem Kumar, Renyong Tang, and Paul Voss

Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications 2004

San Francisco, California United States
27–30 June 2004
ISBN: 1-55752-774-1

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Abstract

Ideal phase-insensitive amplifiers have a 3 dB noise figure at high gains. We show through theory and experiment that fiber parametric amplifiers do not reach this limit due to coupling of noise via the Raman effect.

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