The properties of amplified spontaneous emission noise in saturated fiber Raman amplifiers operating with CW signals

Optics Communications

Volumn 236, Issue 4-6, 2004, Pages 279-288

  Dahan, David ^a   Eisenstein, Gadi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amplified spontaneous emission noise; Fiber Raman amplifier; Saturation

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION NOISE; FIBER RAMAN AMPLIFIER (FRA); SATURATION; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS (SOA);

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 2542444570     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2004.03.056     Document Type: Article

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