Design of double-pass discrete Raman amplifier and the impairments induced by Rayleigh backscattering

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1887-1893

  Tang, M ^a   Shum, P ^a   Gong, Y D ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

DISPERSION COMPENSATED FIBERS; DOUBLE DISPERSION FIBERS; FIBER OPTIC AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS; FIBER PROPERTIES;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 1642599278     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001887     Document Type: Article

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