Cascaded noise penalty for amplified long-haul analog fiber-optic links

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1973-1977

  Devgan, Preetpaul S ^a,b,c   Urick, Vincent J ^a,c   McKinney, Jason D ^a,b,c   Williams, Keith J ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b SFA INC   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog photonics; Intensity modulation direct detection; Microwave photonics; Noise penalty (NP) of erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); MICROWAVES; PHOTONICS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ANALOG PHOTONICS; CASCADED NOISE PENALTY; COMPRESSION DYNAMIC RANGE; INTENSITY MODULATION DIRECT DETECTION;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 34548523684     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.904057     Document Type: Article

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