Electronics Letters · 1994 · 53 citations · 6 references
EngineeringElectrical EngineeringMicrowave EngineeringOpticsPhotonicsFiber OpticsFiber-optic CommunicationOptical Communication SystemsOptical FibersOptical ModulationOptical ModulatorsBrillouin ScatteringCarrier DynamicsModulation DepthModulation EfficiencyOptical Communication LinksOptical Signal AmplificationPower InputStimulated Brillouin Scattering
Stimulated Brillouin scattering is used to increase the modulation depth of a weakly-modulated optical signal by rejecting the forward travelling carrier power. For an input power of eight times the stimulated Brillouin threshold, an improvement of 8 dB in link loss from 0.1 to 20 GHz is achieved.
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K. Giboney, M.J.W. Rodwell, John E. Bowers · IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 1992 · 109 citations
Observation of photodetector nonlinearities
Keith J. Williams, R.D. Esman · Electronics Letters · 1992 · 55 citations