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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 29, Issue 11, Pages 16781-16803Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.426070
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- Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences [2020252]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFB0504500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61705243, 61735007, 61805261]
- Special Project for Research and Development in Key areas of Guangdong Province [2018B090904001]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-17-1-0007]
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This study investigates the temporal and spectral characteristics of a signal lightwave that has been spectrally broadened through phase modulation with a maximal-length sequence (MLS). The enhancement of the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold in a fiber system is evaluated numerically, showing that SBS can build up on a nanosecond-level time scale in a short fiber. The SBS suppression depends on the filtered and amplified MLS waveform parameters, such as pattern length, modulation depth, and the ratio of low-pass filter cutoff frequency to clock rate.
We use a model to investigate both the temporal and spectral characteristics of a signal lightwave which has been spectrally broadened through phase modulation with a maximal-length sequence (MLS), which is a common type of pseudo-random bit sequence. The enhancement of the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) threshold of the modulated lightwave in a fiber system is evaluated by numerically simulating the coupled three-wave SBS interaction equations. We find that SBS can build up on a nanosecond-level time scale in a short fiber, which can reduce the SBS suppressing capability of MLS modulation waveforms with GHz-level clock rate, if the sub-sequence (run) lengths with the same symbol (zero or one) of the MLS extend over several nanoseconds. To ensure the SBS buildup is perturbed and thus suppressed also during these long sub-sequences, we introduce a low-pass filter to average the signal over several bits so that the modulation waveform changes gradually even during long runs and amplify the RF modulation waveforms to the level required for sufficient spectral broadening and carrier suppression of the optical signal. We find that the SBS suppression depends non-monotonically on the parameters of the filtered and amplified MLS waveform such as pattern length, modulation depth, and the ratio of low-pass filter cutoff frequency to clock rate for maximum SBS mitigation. We optimize the SBS suppression through numerical simulations and discuss it in terms of the temporal and spectral characteristics of the lightwave and modulation waveform using derived analytical expressions and numerical simulations. The simulations indicate that the normalized SBS threshold reaches a maximum for a RMS modulation depth of 0.56 pi and a ratio of filter cutoff frequency to clock rate of 0.54 and that MLS9 is superior to other investigated patterns. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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