The Impact of Optical Amplifiers on Long-Distance Lightwave Telecommunications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 1568-1579

  Li, Tingye ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LONG DISTANCE LIGHTWAVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0027694079     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.247728     Document Type: Article

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