Design of double-pass dispersion-compensated Raman amplifiers for improved efficiency: Guidelines and optimizations

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1899-1908

  Tang, M ^a   Gong, Y D ^b   Shum, P ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

DISCRETE RAMAN AMPLIFIER; DOUBLE PASS GEOMETRY; MULTIPATH INTERFERENCE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 4344561796     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.832433     Document Type: Article

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