Bidirectional unrepeatered 43 Gb/s WDM transmission with C/L band-separated Raman amplification

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2079-2085

  Mizuochi, Takashi ^a   Kinjo, Kaoru ^a   Kajiya, Satoshi ^a   Tokura, Toshiyuki ^a   Motoshima, Kuniaki ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed Raman amplifiers; Four wave mixing; Optical fiber communication; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CROSSTALK; FIBER OPTICS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BIDIRECTIONAL UNREPEATERED TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS; RAMAN GAIN; RAMAN PREAMPLIFIERS; RAMAN PUMP LIGHTS; WAVELENGTH ALLOCATION;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037005323     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.806767     Document Type: Article

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