Crosstalk and Its Power Penalty in Multichannel Transmission due to Gain Saturation in a Semiconductor Laser Amplifier

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 1989, Pages 1118-1124

  Inoue, Kyo ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS--AMPLIFICATION; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION--DEGRADATION;

CHANNEL CROSSTALK; GAIN SATURATION; LASER AMPLIFIER; MULTICHANNEL TRANSMISSION; POWER PENALTY;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 0024705701     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.29639     Document Type: Article

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