Abstract
Pump interactions have been identified as a limiting factor for the gain bandwidth product of broadband distributed Raman fiber amplifiers. With respect to distributed Raman gain, it is more advantageous to add WDM channels at wavelengths above C+L band rather than below.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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