Erbium–Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications

PRAISE FOR Erbium–Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications
"The book is an indispensable reference for researchers, development engineers, and system designers in fiber–optic communications.... It will excel as an introductory text in upper–level undergraduate and graduate courses on system applications of fiber optics." ––Optik
"One of the most comprehensive and detailed accounts of the physics and fundamental principles of erbium–doped fiber amplifiers.... I do not hesitate to recommend the book enthusiastically to anyone having an interest in EDFAs and their applications." ––Physics Today
Erbium–doped fiber amplifiers are an important technology for lightwave voice, video, and data transmission. The passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the growth of the Internet have sparked intense demand for expanded bandwidth in all network layers, resulting in significant advances in Erbium–Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) technology. This two–volume set combines Erbium–Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications, an important exploration of the then–infant technology of erbium–doped fiber amplifiers, and Erbium–Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Device and System Developments, a new volume designed to expands the reader s conceptual understanding of EDFAs and cover the developmental issues of EDFAs that are relevant to modern telecom applications.
Erbium–Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications illuminates such key areas as:
∗ Modeling light amplification in Er–doped single–mode fibers
∗ Fundamentals of noise in optical fiber amplifiers
∗ Photodetection of optically amplified signals
∗ Spectroscopic properties of erbium glass fibers
∗ Gain, saturation, and noise characteristics of EDFAs
∗ Device and system applications of EDFAs
Erbium–Doped Fiber Amplifiers:
∗ Devices and Developments reviews
∗ New aspects in EDFA modeling, including the standard confined–doping, the transcendental–power–equation, and average–inversion–level models
∗ Design concepts for EDFAs in terrestrial and submarine WDM systems
∗ Transmission fiber design and dispersion–management techniques for terabit/s systems
∗ Amplified submarine–cable systems, including a brief history of submarine–cable communications and the investigation of terabit/s system technologies
∗ Advanced concepts in the physics of noise in amplified light, noise figure definitions, entropy, and ultimate capacity limits
∗ Delving into fundamental concepts (including a wealth of previously unpublished materials) as well as important breakthroughs, this much–needed resource will place telecom engineers in a position to take advantage of every aspect in the broad potential of EDFAs.
Together, this set sheds light on many new frontiers of knowledge, such as inhomogeneous modeling and nonlinear photon statistics, and demonstrates the many broadening benefits of EDFAs, including their polarization insensitivity, temperature stability, quantum–limited noise figure, and immunity to interchannel crosstalk.

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List of Acronyms and Symbols.
A: FUNDAMENTALS OF OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION IN ERBIUM–DOPED SINGLE–MODE FIBERS.
Modeling Light Amplification in Erbium–Doped Single–Mode Fibers.
Fundamentals of Noise in Optical Fiber Amplifiers.
Photodetection of Optically Amplified Signals.
B: CHARACTERISTICS OF ERBIUM–DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS.
Characteristics of Erbium–Doped Fibers.
Gain, Saturation and Noise Characteristics of Erbium–Doped Fiber Amplifiers.
C: DEVICE AND SYSTEM APPLICATIONS OF ERBIUM–DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS.
Device Applications of EDFAs.
System Applications of EDFAs.Appendix A: Rate Equations for Stark Split Three–Level Laser Systems.
Appendix B: Comparison of LP01 Bessel Solution and Gaussian Approximation for the Fundamental Fiber Mode Envelope.
Appendix C: Example of Program Organization and Subroutines for Numerical Integration of General Rate Equations (1.68).
Appendix D: Emission and Absorption Coefficients for Three–Level Laser Systems with Gaussian Mode Envelope Approximation.
Appendix E: Analytical Solutions for Pump and Signal+Ase in the Unsaturated Gain Regime, for Unidirectional and Bidirectional Pumping.
Appendix F: Density Matrix Description of Stark Split Three–Level Laser Systems.
Appendix G: Resolution of the Amplifier PGF Differential Equation in the Linear Gain Regime.
Appendix H: Calculation of the Output Noise and Variance of Lumped Amplifier Chains.
Appendix I: Derivation of a General Formula for the Optical Noise Figure of Amplifier Chains.
Appendix J: Derivation of the Nonlinear Photon Statistics Master Equation and Moment Equations for Two– or Three–Level Laser Systems.
Appendix K: Semiclassical Determination of Noise Power Spectral Density in Amplified Light Photodetection.
Appendix L: Derivation of the Absorption and Emission Cross Sections Through Einstein′s A and B Coefficients.
Appendix M: Calculation of Homogeneous Absorption and Emission Cross Sections by Deconvolution of Experimental Cross Sections.
Appendix N: Rate Equations for Three–Level Systems with Pump Excited State Absorption.
Appendix O: Determination of Explicit Analytical Solution for a Low Gain, Unidirectionally Pumped EDFA with Single–Signal Saturation.
Appendix P: Determination of EDFA Excess Noise Factor in the Signal–Induced Saturation Regime.
Appendix Q: Average Power Analysis for Self–Saturated EDFAs.
Appendix R: A Computer Program for the Description of Amplifier Self–Saturation Through the Equivalent Input N oise Model.
Appendix S: Finite Difference Resolution Method for Transient Gain Dynamics in EDFAs.
Appendix T: Analytical Solutions for Transient Gain Dynamics in EDFAs.
Appendix U: Derivation of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation.
References.
Index.