Combined erbium and Raman amplification at 1.55 μm in submarine links using backward pumping at 1.48 μm

Pure and Applied Optics (Print edition) (United Kingdom)

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 659-666

  Ahmed, M H ^a   Shalaby, M ^a   Misk, F M ^a  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

SUBMARINE CABLES;

EID: 0032115082     PISSN: 09639659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-9659/7/4/004     Document Type: Article

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