Wide-bandwidth and long-distance WDM transmission using highly gain-flattened hybrid amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 886-888

  Kawai, Shingo ^a   Masuda, Hiroji ^a   Suzuki, Ken Ichi ^a   Aida, Kazuo ^b  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; EQUALIZERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBER; ERBIUM DOPED FLUORIDE FIBER AMPLIFIER; FIBER RAMAN AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032685215     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.769741     Document Type: Article

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