A novel pre-amplifier for WDM systems based on a fiber optical parametric amplifier

We demonstrate a novel scheme to improve receiver sensitivity of using a fiber optical parametric amplifier. The power penalty can be improved by 3.9 dB and the receiver sensitivity can achieve -42 dBm when BER = 10-9.

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