Quantitative analysis of Rayleigh crosstalk in Raman amplifiers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 732-733

  Kobyakov, A ^a   Gray, S ^a   Vasilyev, M ^b  

^a SP DV 2 8 ^*  (United States)

^b US Photonics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; GAIN CONTROL; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

RAMAN AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0038396388     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030489     Document Type: Article

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