Experimental assessment of some Raman fiber amplifiers solutions for coarse wavelength division multiplexing applications

Photonic Network Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 195-202

  Sperti, D ^a,b   Andre P S ^a,c   Neto, B ^a,c   Rocha, A M ^a,c   Bononi, A ^a,b   Da Rocha, F ^a,c   Facao M ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Access networks; Broadband amplification; Coarse wavelength division multiplexing; Pump allocation; Raman fiber amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; PUMPING (LASER); SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TELECOMMUNICATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ACCESS NETWORK; ACCESS NETWORKS; APPLICATIONS.; BROADBAND AMPLIFICATION; COARSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CWDM NETWORKS; DEVELOPED MODEL; DISPERSION-SHIFTED FIBER; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GAIN EQUALIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM (GA); PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PUMP ALLOCATION; RAMAN AMPLIFICATIONS; RAMAN FIBER AMPLIFIERS; RAMAN FIBERS;

AMPLIFICATION;

EID: 51849111065     PISSN: 1387974X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11107-008-0130-5     Document Type: Article

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