Design of multistage gain-flattened fiber Raman amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 935-944

  Chen, Jian ^b   Liu, Xueming ^b   Lu, Chao ^a,b   Wang, Yixin ^b   Li, Zhaohui ^c  

^a IEEE

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Amplifier noise; Cascade systems; Distributed amplifiers; Multistage; Optical pumping; Raman amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

AMPLIFIER NOISE; CASCADE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; MULTISTAGE AMPLIFIERS; RAMAN AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33751092446     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.861937     Document Type: Article

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