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Erbium-Doped Optical Amplifiers—Origin to Latest Trends

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Optical and Wireless Technologies

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In today’s era of high data transmission, the communication system employs optical fiber as a main transmission path for data transmission. To compensate losses along the transmission path, there is a requirement of optical amplifiers. Erbium-doped optical amplifier (EDFA) is one of the most popular optical amplifiers available in the market. In this paper, starting from the basic operating principle to the latest trends in the design and development of the optical communication system with EDFA has been discussed. The important EDFA configurations, the chronological development of EDFA and design issue of the EDFA design also have been addressed. Finally, the future scopes in the design of EDFA with possible solutions are also discussed.

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  1. A. D. Patel Institute of Technology, V.V. Nagar, Gujarat, India

    Asifiqbal Thakor & Pravin Prajapati

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Vijay Janyani

  2. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Ghanshyam Singh

  3. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Manish Tiwari

  4. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nile University, Cairo, Egypt

    Tawfik Ismail

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Thakor, A., Prajapati, P. (2020). Erbium-Doped Optical Amplifiers—Origin to Latest Trends. In: Janyani, V., Singh, G., Tiwari, M., Ismail, T. (eds) Optical and Wireless Technologies. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 648. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2926-9_12

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