Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Fundamentals and Technology (Optics and Photonics) |  | Authors: Philippe C. Becker, N. Anders Olsson, Jay R. Simpson
Publisher: Academic Press
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Pages: 460
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ISBN: 0120845903
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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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 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.
A book with brief theory and a lot of pratical examples June 25, 2000
Qun Lai
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book covers the most issue of EDFA, from components used in EDFA to optical system, even simulation software (I have used the software, but it is not easy to learn and not flexible for EDFA design). It seems to me, the authors have deep experienced working background in this field. There are a lot of practical examples. It is a very good reference book to my work (optical fiber system engineer). The authors give a brief and clear theoretical description, just to reminder your knowledge. It is toll; I like this style and would like to recommend it as the best book.
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
Way better than Desurvire's tome August 3, 2000
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Becker, Olsson and Simpson pratiaclly invented the EDFA at Bell Labs. Yes, in the first published paper Becker and Simpson, they incluced Desurvire as a co-author. Subsequently, however, Desurvire worried about how deifine noise figure, while Becker, Simpson, and Olsson (later to become VP of Lucent) really figured out how to make these things do useful work. If you want to learn about statistical ensembeles, etc, read Desurvire. If you want to start up a optical networking system company, read Becker, et al.
 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.
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