Performance limits in amplified dense WDM networksin the presence of four-wave mixing and gain peaking

Electronics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 998-1000

  Di Pasquale, F ^a   Bayvel, P ^a   Midwinter, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiwave mixing; Optical communication; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AMPLIFIER GAIN SATURATION; COMPLEX DIGITAL CROSS CONNECT SYSTEMS; DISPERSION MANAGEMENT; ERBIUM DOPED FIBRE AMPLIFIER; WAVELENGTH ALLOCATION; WAVELENGTH ROUTING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0029639453     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19950692     Document Type: Article

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