Challenges of Raman amplification

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1024-1034

  Namiki, Shu ^a   Seo, Koji ^b   Tsukiji, Naoki ^b   Shikii, Shigeru ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

14XX nm pump lasers; Fiber fuse; Optical amplifier; Optical damage; Raman amplification; Raman amplifier; Raman scattering; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM); Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) pumping

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SAFETY FACTOR; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

14XX-NM PUMP LASERS; FIBER FUSE; OPTICAL DAMAGE; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; RAMAN AMPLIFIERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (WDM) PUMPING;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 33748290681     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.873444     Document Type: Article

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