Abstract
We investigate the OSNR performance of cascaded SOAs in CWDM metropolitan networks. SOA PDG and noise-figure requirements are determined by an engineering methodology based on careful receiver characterization. Performance is compared to conventional EDFA-amplified DWDM.
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