Raman amplifier and raman amplifier adjustment method

Abstract

A pumping unit supplies pumping light to a fiber connecting medium, a light monitoring unit detects light power of multiple-wavelength light; and a control unit controls the pumping light based on light power detected by the light monitoring unit and connecting medium information indicating optical characteristics in the connecting medium. The connecting medium information includes information indicating a fiber type of the fiber connecting medium, information indicating a length of the fiber connecting medium, an average fiber loss coefficient of the fiber connecting medium and an intra-station loss value.

1 . A Raman amplifier amplifying multiple-wavelength light with the use of a fiber connecting medium, comprising;
 a pumping unit supplying pumping light to the fiber connecting medium;   a light monitoring unit detecting light power of the multiple-wavelength light;   a noise measurement unit measuring ASS noise during the output of an optical amplifier provided in an upstream station with respect to the fiber connecting medium being stopped;   a deriving unit deriving a Raman gain in the fiber connecting medium based on the thus-measured ASS noise; and   a determination unit determining power of the pumping light to be supplied based on the light power detected by said light monitoring unit and the Raman gain derived by said deriving unit.   
     
     
         2 . The Raman amplifier as claimed in  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a request unit requesting the optical amplifier in said upstream station with respect to the fiber connecting medium to stop the output.   
     
     
         3 . The Raman amplifier as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein:
 said pumping unit comprises a plurality of pumping light sources generating pumping light in mutually different wavelengths; and   said determination unit determines a pumping ratio between the plurality of pumping light sources.   
     
     
         4 . The Raman amplifier as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein;
 said light monitoring unit detects, as light power of the multiple-wavelength light, a value obtained from subtracting a noise component from a light power value of an output the fiber connecting medium.   
     
     
         5 . The Raman amplifier as claimed in  claim 4 , wherein:
 the noise component comprises ASS noise measured by said noise measurement unit and an ASE noise corresponding to the optical amplifier provided in the upstream station with respect to the fiber connecting medium.