High co-directional Raman gain for 200-km spans, enabling 40 x 10.66 Gb/s transmission over 2400 km

Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, Technical Digest Series

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages PD24.1-PD24.3

  Bromage, J ^a   Bouteiller, J C ^b   Thiele, H J ^a   Brar, K ^b   Nelson, L E ^a   Stulz, S ^a   Headley, C ^b   Kim, J ^d   Klein, A ^d   Baynham, G ^d   Jorgensen L V ^c   Gruner Nielsen L ^c   Lingle, R L ^d   DiGiovanni, D J ^b  

^a OFS   (United States)

^b OFS LABS   (United States)

^c OFS   (Denmark)

^d OFS   (United States)

Author keywords

Band pass filters; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber losses; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Propagation losses; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; BANDPASS FILTERS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL LOSSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STIMULATED EMISSION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

LONG-HAUL SYSTEM; OPERATING EXPENSE; OPTICAL FIBER LOSS; OPTICAL FIBER POLARIZATION; OPTICAL NOISE; PROPAGATION LOSS; RAMAN PUMPING; SPAN LENGTH;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84947944094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2003.316080     Document Type: Conference Paper

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