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Optical Amplifiers

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In the latter half of the 1980s there was a significant change in the telecommunications industry. Optical fiber networks were installed throughout the developed world and submarine cables containing optical fibers were deployed to link continents. This great mutation in the fundamental technology used in long-haul transmission systems was induced by several advantages of optical fibers. To make better use of their potential, it was necessary to improve receiver sensitivities and to develop practical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) techniques to combine channels (Chapter 11).

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Sabella, R., Lugli, P. (1999). Optical Amplifiers. In: High Speed Optical Communications. Telecommunication Technology and Applications Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5275-8_5

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