Abstract
We discuss the stability of a Brillouin fiber ring resonator used as an active delay line. The stability and shape of the output pulse train depends only on the pump power and the ring recoupling coefficient. The amplified spontaneous noise is shown to be irrelevant, and an optimized configuration is proposed, which is shown numerically to yield a very stable arbitrary delay with little sensitivity to input parameters.
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Le seuil très bas de la diffusion Brillouin stimulée dans les fibres optiques permet d’envisager la réalisation de lignes a retard régénératrices dans des oscillateurs en anneau. Néanmoins, la dynamique très complexe de ces systèmes impose une étude rigoureuse des conditions d’existence du régime impulsionnel; on montre que la forme et la stabilité des impulsions retardees ne dépend que de la puissance de pompe et du coefficient de recouplage dans l’anneau. L’amplification de l’émission spontanée ne joue aucun rôle particulier dans l’apparition d’un plateau continu au-delà d’une valeur critique de l’intensité. On propose une configuration optimale, dont on montre par des simulations numériques qu’elle autorise des retards arbitrairement grands trèseeu sensibles aux fluctuations de forme, largeur, intensité, ou de fréquence du signal injecté.
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Picozzi, A., Picholle, E. & Montes, C. Analysis of brillouin-fiber-ring active optical delay lines. Ann. Télécommun. 53, 348–352 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02998500
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Key words
- Delay line
- Ring resonator
- Optical resonator
- Optical fiber
- Stimulated Brillouin scattering
- Regenerative process
- Pulse behavior
- Stability