Impact of pump OSNR on noise figure for fiber-optical parametric amplifiers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1178-1180

  Durécu Legrand, Anne ^a   Simonneau, C ^a   Bayart, D ^a   Mussot, A ^b   Sylvestre, T ^b   Lantz, E ^b   Maillotte, H ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Noise figure (NF); Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical Kerr effect; Parametric amplifiers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FIBER OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE (NF); OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 20544436396     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.846559     Document Type: Article

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