High-power and low-RIN lasers for advanced first- and higher order Raman copumping

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1591-1593

  Bolognini, Gabriele ^a   Faralli, Stefano ^a   Chiuchiarelli, Andrea ^b   Falconi, Fabio ^c   Di Pasquale, Fabrizio ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b CNIT   (Italy)

^c ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Optical communication systems; Raman amplifiers; Relative intensity noise (RIN); Wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) transmission systems

Indexed keywords

RAMAN AMPLIFIER; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE (RIN); TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS;

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MULTIPLEXING; RAMAN SCATTERING; TRANSMISSIONS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 37249035501     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.877624     Document Type: Article

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