Amplified spontaneous emission in pulse-pumped Raman amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 667-669

  Bromage, Jake ^a   Winzer, P J ^b,c   Nelson, L E ^a   Mermelstein, M D ^d   Horn, C ^d   Headley, C H ^d  

^a OFS at Crawford Hill Laboratories   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Crawford Hill Lab   (United States)

^d OFS LABS   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communications; Pulsed lasers; Raman scattering; Rayleigh scattering

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; RAMAN AMPLIFIERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0037853215     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.809954     Document Type: Article

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