Noise performance of optical fiber transmission links that use non-degenerate cascaded phase-sensitive amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15426-15439

  Tong, Zhi ^a   McKinstrie, C J ^b   Lundström, Carl ^a   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Andrekson, Peter A ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

FIBER LINKS; FIBER-OPTICAL; FORMAT-INDEPENDENT; IN-LINE AMPLIFICATION; LONG HAUL; MULTI-SPANS; NOISE PERFORMANCE; OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION; PHASE-INSENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SEMICLASSICAL THEORIES;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77954911555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015426     Document Type: Article

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