2015 IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM)
DOI: 10.1109/phosst.2015.7248272
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The deployment of phase-insensitive fiber-optic parametric amplifiers (PI-FOPAs) as inline amplifiers in long-haul WDM transmission systems is discussed, and it is outlined how to design PI-FOPAs to be a valuable upgrade option for this application.