Abstract
The instability in Raman amplifiers due to Brillouin scattering is observed for the first time and successfully suppressed by phase modulation. A U-band 40Gb/s WDM transmission experiment demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed suppression technique.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
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