Double Rayleigh Scattering Noise in Lumped and Distributed Raman Amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2224-2228

  Parolari, Paola ^a   Marazzi, Lucia ^a   Bernardini, Lorenzo ^a   Martinelli, Mario ^b  

^a CoreCom ^*  (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Double Rayleigh scattering; Fiber Raman amplifier (FRA); Multiple path interference (MPI); Optical fiber communications

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

RAMAN AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0142195993     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.817705     Document Type: Article

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