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Raman Amplifiers for Telecommunications 1 pp 1–34Cite as

Overview of Raman Amplification in Telecommunications

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In the early 1970s, Stolen and Ippen [1] demonstrated Raman amplification in optical fibers. However, throughout the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, Raman amplifiers remained primarily laboratory curiosities. In the mid-1980s, many research papers elucidated the promise of Raman amplifiers, but much of that work was overtaken by erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) by the late 1980s. However, in the mid to late 1990s, there was a resurgence of interest in Raman amplification. By the early part of the 2000s, almost every long-haul (typically between 300 and 800 km) or ultra-long-haul (typically longer than 800 km) fiber-optic transmission system uses Raman amplification. There are some fundamental and technological reasons for the interest in Raman amplifiers that this book explores.

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Islam, M.N. (2004). Overview of Raman Amplification in Telecommunications. In: Islam, M.N. (eds) Raman Amplifiers for Telecommunications 1. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 90/1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21583-9_1

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