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    An optical amplifier is a device that amplifies an optical signal directly, without the need to first convert it to an electrical signal. An optical amplifier...
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    An optical parametric amplifier, abbreviated OPA, is a laser light source that emits light of variable wavelengths by an optical parametric amplification...
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  • international and transoceanic networks. It is a form of optical communication that relies on optical amplifiers, lasers or LEDs and wavelength-division multiplexing...
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  • contrast, an optical amplifier can amplify all of the wavelengths in a single device and works for all modulation formats. An amplifier does not provide...
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    optical transmitters that convert electrical signals into optical signals, optical fiber cables to carry the signal, optical amplifiers, and optical receivers...
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  • For an optical amplifier with large G it holds Fpnf ≥ 2 whereas for an electrical amplifier it holds Fe ≥ 1. Moreover, today's long-haul optical fiber...
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    Laser (redirect from Optical maser)
    that produces light by itself is technically an optical oscillator rather than an optical amplifier as suggested by the acronym. It has been humorously...
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  • waveguide amplifier (or EDWA) is a type of an optical amplifier enhanced with erbium. It is a close relative of an EDFA, erbium-doped fiber amplifier, and...
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  • quantum amplifier is an amplifier that uses quantum mechanical methods to amplify a signal; examples include the active elements of lasers and optical amplifiers...
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    power amplifier Low-noise amplifier Negative feedback amplifier Optical amplifier Programmable-gain amplifier Tuned amplifier Valve amplifier Power added...
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    on optical networking systems using optical fiber, optical amplifiers, lasers, switches, routers, and other related technologies. Free-space optical communication...
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    been linked to the development of the transistor in 1947 and the optical amplifier in 1957. These technological advances have had a significant impact...
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    erbium-doped fiber amplifier, which reduced the cost of long-distance fiber systems by reducing or eliminating optical-electrical-optical repeaters, in 1986...
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    Optical amplifiers used in optical communications are erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, Raman amplifiers and optical parametric...
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    fiber. By using WDM and optical amplifiers, they can accommodate several generations of technology development in their optical infrastructure without...
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    stimulated emission can take place and the medium can act as a laser or an optical amplifier. The pump power must be higher than the lasing threshold of the laser...
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  • Amplifiers (EDFAs) to extend the reach of the optical signals in fiber optics. Each transmitter and receiver services one optical node. This optical transmitter...
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    first optical telephone system in 1977 in Long Beach, California. By the early 1980s, optical networks powered by lasers, LED and optical amplifier equipment...
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  • LED. This is similar to the circuits used in optical audio compressors. A voltage-controlled amplifier can be realised by first creating a voltage-controlled...
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  • dump the beam from the cavity. In regenerative amplification, an optical amplifier is placed inside a Q-switched cavity. Pulses of light from another...
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  • cable came into use, with amplifiers. Late in the 20th century, all cables installed use optical fiber as well as optical amplifiers, because distances range...
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    absorption of gamma rays. See also Mössbauer effect. Multivariate optical computing is an all optical compressed sensing technique, generally used in harsh environments...
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    Glass (redirect from Optical-quality glass)
    suitable for manufacturing optical lenses, prisms, and optoelectronics materials. Extruded glass fibres have applications as optical fibres in communications...
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  • aperture off-axis optical system optical aberration optical amplifier optical axis optical axis gratings optical bench optical coating optical coherence tomography...
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  • high gain. Chirped pulse amplification Gain-switching Modelocking Optical amplifier Q-switching Raman amplification Qian, C; Duan, Q; Dodd, S; Koretsky...
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  • amplifier is a device for increasing the power of an electronic signal. Amplifier may also refer to: Fluidic amplifier Mechanical amplifier Optical amplifier...
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  • quantum computing, superconducting magnets, light-emitting diodes, the optical amplifier and the laser, the transistor and semiconductors such as the microprocessor...
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    placed on ice, but Pyrex or other borosilicate laboratory glass will not. Optically, borosilicate glasses are crown glasses with low dispersion (Abbe numbers...
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    The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings...
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    who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier. (Credit for the invention of the laser is disputed, since Charles...
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