Power Penalty From Amplified Spontaneous Emission in Spatial Diversity Links for Fade Mitigation

We investigate the power penalty caused by excess amplified spontaneous emission in an optically preamplified receiver for a communications link where a multiwavelength spatial diversity transmitter is used to mitigate atmospheric fading. We compare measured receiver sensitivity for a four-wavelengt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ulmer, Todd G., Henion, Scott R., Walther, Frederick G.
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71586