Design and spectral characteristics of gain-flattened tellurite-based fiber raman amplifiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 504-515

  Masuda, Hiroji ^a,b   Mori, Atsushi ^c   Shikano, Koji ^c   Shimizu, Makoto ^c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communications; Raman amplifiers; Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GAIN CONTROL; NOISE FIGURE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION FIBER (DCF); GAIN EQUALIZER (GEQ); SPECTRAL GAIN; TELLURITE FIBER (TF);

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33751283652     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.860149     Document Type: Article

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