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  1. Gain in single-pass photorefractive polymer optical amplifier reaches factor of five

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    Mon, 1 Sep 1997

    single-pass photorefractive polymer optical amplifier reaches factor of five An optical amplifier comprising stacked photorefractive ..... rival their inorganic counterparts as optical amplifiers . W. E. Moerner and colleagues at

  2. Global optical -amplifier market poised for takeoff

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    Mon, 1 Jan 1996

    Global optical - amplifier market poised for takeoff Consumption of optical amplifiers worldwide is expected to expand ..... applications. Not surprisingly, the optical - amplifier specialty fiber market is also

  1. Optical amplifiers speed data flow undersea

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    Fri, 1 Aug 1997

    Optical amplifiers speed data flow undersea Erbium ..... at reduced circuit cost. Optical amplifiers Optical amplifiers boost transmission speed by ..... reliability. To produce an optical amplifier within an optical fiber

  2. Genoa Responds To Demand For Linear Optical Amplifiers

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    Thu, 5 Sep 2002

    provider of linear optical amplifiers (LOA), has established ..... single-chip linear optical amplifiers . Genoa's disruptive ..... based linear optical amplifier technology is the ..... semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers . Laser Focus World

  3. Picking chips: A comparison of chip-based optical amplifiers

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    Sun, 1 Jun 2003

    needed. This allows many LOA structures to be integrated monolithically on a single chip. The highest performing optical amplifiers use multiple sections. Each individual section focuses on providing the best performance for a given specification

  4. Hybrid optical amplifier uses PPLN to eliminate Kerr nonlinearity

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    Mon, 1 Feb 1999

    Hybrid optical amplifier uses PPLN to eliminate Kerr nonlinearity Researchers at the University ..... College Park, MD) have constructed a hybrid Ononlinearity-freeO optical amplifier using periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) and an erbium

  5. Nortel, Ericsson to standardize optical -amplifier components

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    Tue, 1 Sep 1998

    Nortel, Ericsson to standardize optical - amplifier components The Optoelectronics division of Northern ..... standard footprint design and package interface for optical amplifier components. The package will use the standardized erbium

  6. OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS : Phase-sensitive fiber-optic amplifier has record-low 1.1 dB noise

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    Mon, 1 Aug 2011

    1.1 ± 0.4 dB at a 26.5 dB gain with -42 dBm signal input power—the lowest noise figure ever measured for any optical amplifier with reasonably high (greater than 10 dB) gain, according to the researchers. The excess noise, resulting in a noise

  7. Samarium-doped glass may be next optical -amplifier material

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    Wed, 16 Jun 2010

    College Park, MD-- Optical amplifiers used in fiber-optic communications -- including, of course, the ubiquitous erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) -- are

  8. Phase-sensitive optical amplifier with 1 dB noise increases distance between repeaters

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    Tue, 21 Jun 2011

    Gothenburg, Sweden--Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have demonstrated a phase-sensitive optical amplifier that can amplify light with a link noise-figure improvement of almost 6 dB compared to conventional erbium-doped