Abstract
We show that four-wave mixing (FWM) between pumps and signals, different from pump-pump FWM, can severely degrade the optical signal-to-noise ratio if the amplifier fiber has a zero dispersion wavelength lying midway between co-propagating pumps and signals.
© 2002 Optical Society of America
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