Tutorial #116
Optical Amplifiers
Ian Clarke, IPG PHOTONICS
- How to build a C and L band optical amplifier
- The components who makes them and how to choose them
- Amplifier "noise figure"; how to predict its effects on your signal.
- The many types of amplifiers; traditional fiber amplifiers,cladding pumped amplifiers, wave-guide amplifiers and new semiconductor amplifiers.
- Amplifiers for DWDM; gain flattening, transient suppression and the next generation of "smart" amplifiers
- How amplifiers can wreck your CATV network (unless you build them correctly)
- Amplifiers for the last mile
- The business of amplifiers; the market, the companies and some "limited visibility" guesses at the future
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