Bidirectional 10-channel 2.5 Gbit/s WDM transmission over 250km using 76nm (1531-1607 nm) gain-band bidirectional erbium-doped fibre amplifiers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 1967-1968

  Suzuki, K I ^a   Masuda, H ^a   Kawai, S ^a   Aida, K ^a   Nakagawa, K ^b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fibre amplifiers; Optical communication; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL FIBERS; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); NOISE FIGURE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031556595     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971342     Document Type: Article

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