Reduction of excess intensity noise in spectrum-sliced incoherent light for WDM applications

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-60

  Keating, Adrian J ^a,b,c   Sampson, David D ^b,d  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Feedforward compensation; Optical fiber communications; Optical noise; Spectrum slicing; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

OPTOELECTRONIC FEEDFORWARD COMPENSATION; SPECTRUM SLICED INCOHERENT LIGHT;

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0030833109     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.552113     Document Type: Article

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