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...

An optical parametric amplifier, abbreviated OPA, is a laser light source that emits light of variable wavelengths by an optical parametric amplification...

optical transmitters that convert electrical signals into optical signals, optical fiber cables to carry the signal, optical amplifiers, and optical receivers...

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...

international and transoceanic networks. It is a form of optical communication that relies on optical amplifiers, lasers or LEDs and wavelength-division multiplexing...

theoretical work by Charles H. Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow and the optical amplifier patented by Gordon Gould. A laser differs from other sources of light...

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...

high gain. Chirped pulse amplification Gain-switching Modelocking Optical amplifier Q-switching Raman amplification Qian, C; Duan, Q; Dodd, S; Koretsky...

utilizing optical amplifiers to transmit data via light. Under chief executive officer Pat Nettles, Ciena developed a dual-stage optical amplifier for dense...

Optical amplifiers used in optical communications are erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, Raman amplifiers and optical parametric...

quantum amplifier is an amplifier that uses quantum mechanical methods to amplify a signal; examples include the active elements of lasers and optical amplifiers...

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...

on optical networking systems using optical fiber, optical amplifiers, lasers, switches, routers, and other related technologies. Free-space optical communication...

absorption of gamma rays. See also Mössbauer effect. Multivariate optical computing is an all optical compressed sensing technique, generally used in harsh environments...

erbium-doped fiber amplifier, which reduced the cost of long-distance fiber systems by reducing or eliminating optical-electrical-optical repeaters, in 1986...

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...

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...

power amplifier Lock-in amplifier Low-noise amplifier Negative feedback amplifier Optical amplifier Programmable-gain amplifier Tuned amplifier Valve...

dump the beam from the cavity. In regenerative amplification, an optical amplifier is placed inside a Q-switched cavity. Pulses of light from another...

Amplifiers (EDFAs) to extend the reach of the optical signals in fiber optics. Each transmitter and receiver services one optical node. This optical transmitter...

in the context of ultrafast amplifiers, e.g. for optical components such as the Pockels cell of a regenerative amplifier. Kerr effect "B Integral". Encyclopedia...

electro-optical sampling can be enhanced beyond the classical shot noise limit through the use of squeezed light generated by an optical parametric amplifier...

suitable for manufacturing optical lenses, prisms, and optoelectronics materials. Extruded glass fibres have applications as optical fibres in communications...

compressors and stretchers. However, a typical Ti:sapphire-based chirped-pulse amplifier requires that the pulses are stretched to several hundred picoseconds...

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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...

fiber. By using WDM and optical amplifiers, they can accommodate several generations of technology development in their optical infrastructure without...

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...

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...

An optical isolator, or optical diode, is an optical component which allows the transmission of light in only one direction. It is typically used to prevent...