Rayleigh scattering limitations in distributed Raman pre-amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 159-161

  Hansen, P B ^a   Eskildsen, L ^a   Stentz, A J ^a   Strasser, T A ^a   Judkins, J ^a   DeMarco, J J ^a   Pedrazzani, R ^a   DiGiovanni, D J ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical amplifiers; Optical communication; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pumping; Optical receivers; Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS (DSF); OPTICAL RECEIVERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031647131     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.651148     Document Type: Article

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