Design and simulation of an in-line optical gain equalizer for application in WDM systems

Proceedings of 2005 7th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2005

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 221-224

  Junior, Amauri M ^b   Kalinowski, Hypolito J ^a,b   Pohl, Alexandre A P ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

In line gain equalizers; Simulation; System performance; WDM systems

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUALIZERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

8-CHANNEL WDM NETWORK; IN-LINE GAIN EQUALIZERS; OSNR PROFILE; WDM SYSTEMS;

GAIN CONTROL;

EID: 33745697743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2005.1506138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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