BER floor due to modulation instability in a 2.5 Gbit/s field trial with +22 dBm booster EDFA

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-187

  Oskar Van Deventer, M ^a   Wingstrand, Sven ^b   Hermansson, Björn ^b   Bolle, Aldo ^c   Jalderot, Patrick ^d   Bäckdahl, Christer ^d   Karlsson, Jörgen ^e  

^a KPN RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b Telia Research AB   (Sweden)

^c Telia AB   (Sweden)

^d Region Sydost   (Sweden)

^e Telia Research AB   (Sweden)

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EID: 0030123925     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ofte.1996.0020     Document Type: Article

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