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Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers (Optics and Photonics) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Philippe C. Becker, N. Anders Olsson, Jay R. Simpson
Publisher: Academic Press
Category: Book
List Price: $125.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1330825
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 460
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0120845903
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.38275
EAN: 9780120845903
ASIN: 0120845903
Publication Date: May 15, 1999
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Product Description
Erbium Fiber Amplifiers is a comprehensive introduction to the increasingly important topic of optical amplification. Written by three Bell Labs pioneers, the book stresses the importance of the interrelation of materials properties, optical properties, and systems aspects of optical fiber amplifiers.
The floppy disk included with the book contains a PC based educational version of the sophisticated commercial amplifier simulation package OASIX (sold by the Specialty Fiber Group of Lucent Technologies). This powerful numerical simulation software allows one to simulate the performance of a real erbium fiber amplifier, and obtain its properties such as signal gain and noise generated. Several parameter sets are included, each of which represents a commercially available type of erbium doped fiber usedin different kinds of amplifiers (e.g. preamplifiers and power amplifiers). The user can vary, via Windows based input screens, various amplifier characteristics such as fiber length, pump power, signal power, and additional signals. The output is savedin a file which can be read by any spreadsheet or plotting package for graphical representation of the results. The software allows the reader to explore on his or her own the concepts of amplifier performance discussed in the book, and gain a more intuitive and interactive educational experience leading to a richer understanding of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and their applications.
Key Features
* Includes a software disk with a PC-based amplifier simulation tool derived from a sophisticated commercial package (OASIX), which allows the reader to gain an interactive educational experience using parameters for commercially available erbium-doped fibers
* Explains the theory of noise in optically amplified systems in an intuitive way
* The book contains a discussion of components used in amplifier fabrication and of the attendant technologies used in real systems
* The book provides basic tools for amplifier design as well as systems engineering, including the latest developments in WDM and soliton systems
* The book discusses the fundamentals of rare earth ions for the reader desiring more depth in the topic
* The book is for either the novice of experienced reader
* The chapter have links between them to allow the reader to understand the relationship between the amplifier characteristics, noise, and systems applications
* The book contains extensive references
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 BEST IN CLASS April 7, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
most up-to-date, fewest mistakes (by far), clearest, most-well-thought-out-treatment
 Re: EDFA argument March 27, 2001
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am interested in reviews about the book but i am perplexed by the furore as penned in the previous e-mails, having just written that however i would just like to re-iteriate the point made previously that a huge amount of in-fibre technology development and research work was done at the University of Southampton. NB I haven't used the book yet so ignore the star rating
This book is the book to read if you need to know EDFAs January 17, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is full of practical examples. With respect to ED's book this book is far more practical and has fewer errors. One thing to note on the arguemnt on EDFA proprierty/discovery. The real contributors to the art & science rarely published papers. They designed, built and deployyed the earliest devices and acihieved more understanding of most "paper" writers. Olsen, Becker, and Simpson wrote some of the early papers, but now all hold high positions in innovative srtartups - Becker, VP @ Corvis; Olsen, founder, CTO @ Cenix; Simpson, Key scientist at Ciena. This innovative start up mentality is seen throughout the book. PS: most of the models introduced in ED's book have been subseuently improved and modified (e.g. average inversion model.) I am waiting for some one to write an up to date review of EDFA modeling. Of course my bias would be that the author whould have actually sold/deployeed what he had modeled.
 Becker et. al. v.s Desurvire November 8, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Evaluating a book often is strongly dependent on the level of expertise and experience of the reviewer, especially in a new field like this. Speaking as one who has been in other areas of science and technology for decades but who has been recently trying to learn this new subject, it is safe to say that both Desurvire's and Becker's book have merit and they complement each other. I found Becker's book much easier reading and a pleasant respite from Desurvire's sometimes incredible density (did he really write that whole thing by himself?), but there are portions of several chapters in Desurvire that are enlightening and reasonably clear even to a novice. The technology of optical amplifiers is probably still maturing and as time goes on new texts on optical amplifiers will be written and they will draw on and improve on these two books both in content and style but for the present these two appear to be necessary for workers in the field. If you are beginner, you might want to start with Becker.
Practical review October 26, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is ok. It's a nice compliment to Desurvire's book to fill in the blanks left by Desurvire. It's a little easier to read and a bit better organized and certainly less dense. It gives a decent overview and lists the really important aspects of the design. It includes a fairly uninformative section on codoped fibers. It reminds me of Koechner's Solid State Laser engineering but less complete. The software is useless except maybe to beginning students. For those comparing it to Desurvire's book, it's for the quick and dirty reference. If you are doing research into novel fibers amplifiers this isn't the book for you. However, if you are a designer of commercial amplifiers it's much more convenient and concise than Desurvire. And BTW who CARES who invented the damn thing anyway. All that matters is that none of you dopes did. So shut your mouth.
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