Novel in-service wavelength-band upgrade scheme for fiber Raman amplifier

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-29

  Kikuchi, Nobuhiko ^a,b   Wong, Kenneth Kin Yip ^a   Uesaka, Katsumi ^a,c   Shimizu, Katsuhiro ^a,d   Yam, Scott ^a   Hu, Eric Shih Tse ^a   Marhic, Michel ^a   Kazovsky, Leonid G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^c SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^d MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical pumping; Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GAIN MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; FIBER RAMAN AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; WAVELENGTH BAND UPGRADE SCHEME;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037252327     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.805800     Document Type: Article

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