Analytical solution of transmission performance improvement in fiber spans with forward raman gain and its application to repeaterless systems

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1182-1188

  Küng, Alain P ^a,b   Agarwal, A ^a,c   Grosz, D F ^a,d   Banerjee, S ^a   Maywar, D N ^a,e  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Swiss Federal Office of Energy   (Switzerland)

^c TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Raman amplifiers; Optical fiber communications; Return to zero (RZ); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFIERS; FIBER SPANS; OPTICAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; RETURN-TO-ZERO (RZ);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 18144392718     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.843474     Document Type: Article

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