Optical fiber amplifiers for WDM optical networks

Bell Labs Technical Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 187-206

  Sun, Yan ^a,b,c,d   Srivastava, Atul K ^e,f,g   Zhou, Jianhui ^h   Sulhoff, James W ^h  

^a Advanced WDM Technologies Department   (United States)

^b SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Technical Staff

^f LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^g TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FIBER LASERS; GAIN CONTROL; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ERBIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS (EDFA);

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0032626419     PISSN: 10897089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bltj.2153     Document Type: Article

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