Dispersion-compensating fiber Raman amplifiers with step, parabolic, and triangular refractive index profiles

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1190-1197

  Chan, Andrew Che On ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersion compensation; Gain flattening; Raman amplifiers; Refractive index profile (RIP)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; OPTICAL GAIN; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FIBER RAMAN AMPLIFIERS; GAIN FLATTENING; GAIN SPECTRUM; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILE (RIP);

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248547707     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.893033     Document Type: Article

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