Impact of MPI and modulation format on transmission systems employing distributed Raman amplification

Electronics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 970-972

  Fludger, C R S ^a   Zhu, Y ^a   Handerek, V ^a   Mears, R J ^b  

^a NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MULTIPATH INTERFERENCE (MPI);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0035913153     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20010659     Document Type: Article

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