Abstract
The spontaneous Raman capture fraction in a single-mode fiber is inversely related to effective area. This relation ties together classical and quantum approaches to stimulated Raman scattering in fibers and has implications for gain and noise in fiber Raman amplifiers.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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