Evaluation methods and requirements for the stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold in a single-mode fiber

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 10-15

  Shimizu, Tomoya ^a   Nakajima, Kazuhide ^a   Shiraki, Kazuyuki ^a   Ieda, Koji ^a   Sankawa, Izumi ^a  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analogue transmission; CNR; SBS threshold; Stimulated Brillouin scattering

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; NUMERICAL METHODS; POWER TRANSMISSION;

ANALOGUE TRANSMISSION; CARRIER-TO-NOISE RATIO (CNR); REFLECTED POWER;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 37349074533     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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