Reflection-induced penalty in Raman amplified systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 573-575

  Kim, C H ^a,b,c   Bromage, Jake ^b   Jopson, R M ^b  

^a Lucent Technologies ^*

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Inband crosstalk; Multipath interference; Raman amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CROSSTALK; LIGHT REFLECTION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

RAMAN AMPLIFIED SYSTEMS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0036539750     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.992615     Document Type: Article

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