Impact of hybrid EDFA-distributed Raman amplification on a 4 × 40-Gb/s WDM optical communication system

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 341-343

  Pizzinat, Anna ^a   Santagiustina, Marco ^a   Schivo, Cristian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical propagation; Raman amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR DISTORTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER; LOSS COMPENSATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; RAMAN AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037318728     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.806109     Document Type: Article

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