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erbium-doped fiber amplifier

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erbium-doped fiber amplifier [¦ər·bē·əm ‚dōpt ‚fī·bər ′am·plə‚fī·ər]
(communication)
An optical-fiber amplifier whose fiber core is lightly doped with trivalent erbium ions which absorb light at pump wavelengths of 0.98 and 1.48 micrometers and emit it at a signal wavelength around 1.5 micrometers through stimulated emission. Abbreviated EDFA.


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Thyagarajan (Indian Institute of Technology) and Ghatak (Disah Academy) then explain the role of lasers, photodetectors, erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, Raman fiber amplifiers, fiber Bragg gratings, couplers, isolators, external modulators, and thin-film devices in fiber optic communication systems.
The transfer standard is an erbium-doped fiber amplifier that is coupled to a linear polarizer and a narrow-band optical filter centered in the 1550 nm wavelength range.
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