Abstract
We present dopantanalysis and characterization of dispersion compensating fibers in fiber Raman amplifications. ASE and Rayleigh scattering dominate the noise generation in small-signal amplifications, while stimulated Brillouin scattering mainly limits the high-signal amplifications.
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