Technical difficulties of the lightwave undersea systems using EDFA repeater

• Optical noise (ASE) accumulation

• Chromatic dispersion of the transmission fiber

• Nonlinearity of the transmission fiber

• Polarization dependent factors

  • Polarization dependent loss (PDL)
  • Polarization hole burning (PHB)
  • Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)

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