Asymmetric bi-directional WDM transmission of 8 (total) 10 Gbit/s channels using bi-directional amplifier comprising single unidirectional optical amplifier and four-port Mach-Zehnder WDM coupler

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 1722-1724

  Sumida, M ^a   Maeda, H ^a   Tada, Y ^a  

^a NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INTERNET; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

BIDIRECTIONAL AMPLIFIER; UNIDIRECTIONAL AMPLIFIER;

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 0034272315     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20001216     Document Type: Article

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