Photon Statistics of Single-Mode Zeros and Ones from an Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Measured by Means of Homodyne Tomography

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1340-1342

  Voss, Paul ^a   Vasilyev, Michael ^b   Levandovsky, Dmitry ^c   Noh, Tae Gon ^d   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

^c Tellabs Inc   (United States)

^d Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Noise measurement; Optical communication; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001258720     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.883823     Document Type: Article

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