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  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference and the International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication
  • OSA Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1999),
  • paper ThU3

The Proper Definition of Noise Figure of Optical Amplifiers

H. A. Hans

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Abstract

The original formulation of noise figure proposed by Friis[1] and standarized by the IEEE[2] defines it as the signal-to-noise ratio at the input of an amplifier divided by the signal to noise ratio at the amplifier output.

© 1999 Optical Society of America

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