240-km repeater spacing in a 5280-km WDM system experiment using 8 × 2.5 Gb/s NRZ transmission

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 893-895

  Ma, Matthew X ^a   Kidorf, Howard D ^a   Rottwitt, Karsten ^a   Kerfoot III, Frank W ^a   Davidson, Carl R ^a  

^a TYCO TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Power lasers; Raman scattering; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; GAIN CONTROL; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA); NONRETURN-TO-ZERO (NRZ) TRANSMISSION; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032095273     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681521     Document Type: Article

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