Inline coherent optical amplifier with noise figure lower than 3dB quantum limit

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-64

  Imajuku, W ^a   Takada, A ^a   Yamabayashi, Y ^a  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

INJECTION-LOCKED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; INLINE COHERENT OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE (NF); OPTICAL PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFICATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0033640136     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20000032     Document Type: Article

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