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    • Optical Engineering
    • Telecommunications
    • Nonlinear Optics

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    • Fibre Optical Parametric Amplifiers (FOPAs) are crucial for optical communications.
    • Raman amplification offers complementary benefits but has limitations.
    • Integrating both functionalities can potentially overcome individual drawbacks.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To experimentally demonstrate a novel Raman-Assisted Fibre Optical Parametric Amplifier (RA-FOPA).
    • To evaluate the performance of RA-FOPA for amplifying wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals.
    • To compare RA-FOPA performance against conventional FOPA and individual pump contributions.

    Main Methods:

    • Experimental setup of a RA-FOPA system.
    • Amplification of 10x58Gb/s, 100GHz-spaced Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) signals.
    • Tuning of parametric pump power and frequency for optimization.
    • Comparison of RA-FOPA with a conventional FOPA under equivalent gain.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved 20dB net gain for WDM signals.
    • Demonstrated gain improvement of up to 5dB compared to combined individual pump effects.
    • Reduced four-wave mixing crosstalk by up to 5.8 ± 0.4dB compared to conventional FOPA.
    • Observed a worst-case performance penalty of only 1.0 ± 0.2dB across various conditions.

    Conclusions:

    • RA-FOPA offers significant advantages over conventional FOPA, particularly in crosstalk reduction.
    • The demonstrated performance makes RA-FOPA a promising technology for advanced optical communication systems.
    • Optimized pump parameters are key to maximizing RA-FOPA benefits.