Noise in Amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2895-2915

  Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a   Inoue, Kyo ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplifier noise; Laser amplifiers; Noise generators; Parametric amplifiers; Repeaters; Spontaneous emission

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; NYQUIST DIAGRAMS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

LASER AMPLIFIERS; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0347603465     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.816887     Document Type: Review

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