Bidirectional higher order cascaded Raman amplification benefits for 10-Gb/s WDM unrepeated transmission systems

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2427-2433

  Faralli, Stefano ^a   Bolognini, Gabriele ^a   Sacchi, Giovanni ^b   Sugliani, Simone ^b   Di Pasquale, Fabrizio ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Optical communication systems; Raman amplifiers; Rayleigh scattering; Relative intensity noise (RIN)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

COPUMPING CONFIGURATION; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; RAMAN GAIN; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE (RIN); UNREPEATED TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 24744442552     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.850807     Document Type: Article

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