Optical Fiber Amplifiers: Materials, Devices, and Applications (Artech House Optoelectronics Library)

Prepared by six leading professionals in the industry, this comprehensive reference helps you better understand the basic phenomena behind OF amplifiers -- and gives you the practical knowledge you need to design and produce OF systems. Includes 180 equations and nearly 240 illustrations.

Shoichi Sudo is a group leader of optical fiber amplifiers at NTT Laboratories, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo. A recipient of 5 engineering awards, Dr. Sudo has published more than 70 professional papers, and holds over 90 patents. He is the author of Frequency Stabilization of Semiconductor Laser Diodes, also published by Artech House (1995).