Stimulated Raman Scattering －Will it Benefit or Harm High-Capacity Transmission?

Stimulated Raman Scattering － Will it Benefit or Harm High-Capacity Transmission?

Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) is a unique phenomenon that occurs in optical fibres. The contribution of SRS is an important factor to be considered in order to realize the extension of transmission distance and/or occupied wavelength band for large capacity transmission systems. In particular, the contribution of SRS is expected to be significant in multiband transmission.

In the workshop, we will discuss the challenges and future prospects of optical components, amplification schemes and transmission systems as listed below.

Session 1: 10:00 - 11:10  Amplification technology using SRS

Recent progress and challenges of pump sources for Raman amplification

Junji Yoshida, Furukawa Electric Co., Japan

 Recent advances in ultra-wideband Raman amplifiers

Mingming Tan, Aston University, UK

 Usage of the random Raman lasers in optical communications links - achievements and challenges

Serguei Papernyi, MPB Communications Inc., Canada

 Challenges and recent progress of distributed Raman amplification in commercial C+L system

Kentaro Nakamura, Fujitsu Ltd., Japan

Panel discussion

Break

 Session 2: 11.20 -12.30  Modeling and experiment of transmission and network considering SRS

 Optimization of practical long-haul C+L+S transmission, leveraging accurate closed-form modeling

 Pierluigi Poggiolini, Politechnico di Torino, Italy

 Challenges and recent progress of high-capacity transmission managing SRS in multi-band WDM

 Yann Frignac, Huawei Technologies France, France

 Challenges and recent progress of high-capacity transmission managing SRS including extension to SDM 

 Ruben Luis, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

 Challenges and recent progress of wideband network considering SRS 

 Julia Larikova, Infinera, US

 Panel discussion