This paper reviews properties and use of conventional single-mode dispersion-
compensating fibers (DCFs). The quality of the dispersion compensation expressed as …

Raman amplification has enabled dramatic increases in the reach and capacity of lightwave
systems. This tutorial explains why, starting with the fundamental properties of gain from …

Lightwave communication systems carry information that is encoded onto the intensity,
phase, or polarization of light from one point to another along an optical path. When …

Optical sensing and imaging methods for biomedical applications, such as spectroscopy
and laser-scanning fluorescence microscopy, are incapable of performing sensitive …

We present an analytical study of multipath interference (MPI) in pulse-pumped fiber Raman
amplifiers (FRAs), caused by the internal reflections from the fiber facets and the effect of …

We analyze the performance of bidirectional WDM PON architecture which utilizes
distributed Raman amplification and pump recycling technique. The maximum reach at data …

Exact and approximate analytical formulas for the inband crosstalk caused by discrete
reflection followed by Rayleigh backscattering are derived. Also, a simplified expression for …

Fibre Raman amplifiers are being deployed in many new long-haul and ultra long-haul fibre-
optic transmission systems, making them the first and most widely commercialized nonlinear …

The impact of optical receiver configuration on in-band crosstalk-induced penalty has been
investigated in both theoretical and experimental analyses, for differential phase-shift keying …

A simple equation for the estimation of in-band crosstalk-induced power penalty has been
derived by considering the symbol peak power as well as the impact of the average …