WDM Transmission Over Multiple Long Spans With Bidirectional Raman Pumping

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 225-232

  Bromage, J ^a   Bouteiller, J C ^b   Thiele, H J ^a   Brar, K ^b   Nelson, L E ^a   Stulz, S ^a   Headley, C ^b   Boncek, R ^c   Kim, J ^c   Klein, A ^c   Baynham, G ^c   Jorgensen L V ^d   Gruner Nielsen L ^d   Lingle Jr , R L ^c   DiGiovanni, D J ^b  

^a OFS   (United States)

^b OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c OFS   (United States)

^d OFS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Distributed amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communications; Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; RAMAN PUMPING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 10744229940     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.822170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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