Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications - Hardcover

Desurvire, Emmanuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471589772 ISBN 13: 9780471589778

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1994

Synopsis

How is light amplified in the doped fiber? How much spontaneous emission noise is generated at the output? Do detectors with optical preamplifiers outperform avalanche photodiodes? What are the current types and architectures of amplifier-based systems?

Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications

These are just a handful of the essential questions answered in Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers―the first book to integrate the most influential current papers on this breakthrough in fiber-optics technology. Written by one of the pioneers in the field, this unique reference provides researchers, engineers, and system designers with detailed, interdisciplinary coverage of the theoretical underpinnings, main characteristics, and primary applications of EDFAs. Packed with information on important system experiments and the best experimental results to date as well as over 1,400 references to the expanding literature, Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers illuminates such key areas as:

• Modeling light amplification in Er-doped single-mode fibers
• Fundamentals of noise in optical fiber amplifiers
• Photodetection of optically amplified signals
• Spectroscopic properties of erbium glass fibers
• Gain, saturation, and noise characteristics of EDFAs
• Device and system applications of EDFAs

In so doing, the book sheds light on many new frontiers of knowledge, such as inhomogeneous modeling and nonlinear photon statistics, and demonstrates the many broadening benefits of EDFAs, including their polarization insensitivity, temperature stability, quantum-limited noise figure, and immunity to interchannel crosstalk. With the demand for transoceanic and terrestrial communications growing at a steady rate of 25% a year, the arrival of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers―destined to significantly expand the capabilities of today's hard-pressed lightwave technology-couldn't be more timely.

About this title

From the Publisher

Organized into three sections which can be read independently. Part A is essentially theoretical and deals with the fundamentals of light amplification and noise in single-mode fibers as well as principles of photodetection of digital signals with optical amplifiers. The second section outlines erbium-doped fibers' characteristics from spectroscopic features to fiber amplifier gain and saturation properties. Lastly it describes both device and systems applications of erbium-doped fibers. Integrates laser physics and communications.

About the Author

EMMANUEL DESURVIRE is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. For four years he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Laboratories which did pioneering work in erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. In 1993 Dr. Desurvire received the IEEE's Distinguished Lecturer Award. In 1994, he joined Alcatel-Alsthom Recherche in France. He is a contributor to the book Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers and is the author or coauthor of more than 90 technical papers. He received his Diploma of Advanced Studies in the field of theoretical physics from the University of Paris in 1981 and his PhD in physics from the University of Nice two years later. He spent two years in postdoctoral research at Stanford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0471589772
• ISBN 13: 9780471589778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 800