Impact of double Rayleigh scattering noise in distributed higher order Raman pumping schemes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 804-806

  Faralli, S ^a   Di Pasquale, F ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Double Rayleigh scattering (DRS); Higher order Raman pumping; Optical communication systems; Raman amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PUMPING (LASER); SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFIER; DOUBLE RAYLEIGH SCATTERING NOISE; MULTIPATH INTERFERENCE NOISE; OPTICAL NOISE FIGURE; Q-FACTOR ANALYSIS;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 0038540146     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.811345     Document Type: Article

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