Abstract
We report the first WDM numerical characterisation of crosstalk growth in cascaded Raman-Assisted Fibre Optical Parametric Amplifiers (RA-FOPAs). A cascade of ten RA-FOPAs results in ~13dB lower crosstalk than the equivalent cascade of conventional FOPAs.
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