Impact of dispersion fluctuations on the noise properties of fiber optic parametric amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2171-2178

  Velanas, Pantelis ^a   Bogris, Adonis ^a   Syvridis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dispersion fluctuations; Four wave mixing; Noise; Noise figure; Parametric amplification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

DISPERSION FLUCTUATIONS; FIBER OPTIC PARATRIC AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 33646919493     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.872311     Document Type: Article

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