Transmission of 8 DWDM channels at 20 Gb/s over 160 km of standard fiber using a cascade of semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 717-719

  Spiekman, L H ^a   Wiesenfeld, J M ^b   Gnauck, A H ^b   Garrett, L D ^b   Van Den Hoven, G N ^a   Van Dongen, T ^a   Sander Jochem, M J H ^a   Binsma, J J M ^a  

^a JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSMITTERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CROSS MODULATION DISTORTION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034206563     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.849095     Document Type: Article

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