Experimental study on noise characteristics of a gain-saturated fiber optical parametric amplifier

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 969-974

  Inoue, Kyo ^a   Mukai, Takaaki ^a  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs)

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL FIBERS; SHOT NOISE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

OPTICAL NOISE; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS (OPA);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0036613154     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.1018808     Document Type: Article

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