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Mohammed N. Islam
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Xtera Communications, Inc., Allen, USA
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxix
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Subsystems and Modules
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- C. Headley, M. Mermelstein, J.-C. Bouteiller
Pages 353-382
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- Alan Evans, Andrey Kobyakov, Michael Vasilyev
Pages 383-412
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- Mohammed N. Islam, Carl De Wilde, Amos Kuditcher
Pages 445-490
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Systems Design and Experiments
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- J. Bromage, P. J. Winzer, R.-J. Essiambre
Pages 491-568
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- Howard Kidorf, Morten Nissov, Dmitri Foursa
Pages 595-625
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Back Matter
Pages 723-732
About this book
I remember vividly the ?rst time that I heard about the ?ber ampli?er. At that time, of course, it was the erbium-doped ?ber ampli?er, the predecessor of the Raman ampli?er that is the subject of this book. It was an early morning in a forgotten year in Murray Hill, New Jersey at one of our Bell Labs monthly research staff meetings. About twenty directors and executive directors of research organizations clustered around a long table in the imposing executive conference room. Arno Penzias, the vice president of research, presided at the foot of the table. Everyone who participated in those research staff meetings will long remember their culture and atmosphere. Arno would pick an arbitrary starting point somewhere around the table, and the designated person would head to the front of the table to give a short talk on “something new” in his or her research area. This ?rst speaker would invariably ?ddle helplessly with the controls embedded in the podium that controlled the viewgraph projector, but eventually we would hear machinery grinding in the back room as a large hidden mirror moved into place. We would all wait quietly, arranging and choosing our own viewgraphs from the piles that lay on the table in front of every participant.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Mohammed N. Islam
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Xtera Communications, Inc., Allen, USA
Mohammed N. Islam