Abstract
Broadband distributed Raman amplification is helpful in multi-terabit transmission experiments requiring high and flat gains over a wide spectral window. We show that nonlinear pump interactions can severely degrade amplifier performance at high pump powers.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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