ISBN 0-89006-809-7
Shoichi Sudo, Yasutake Ohishi, Kazuo Fujiura, Terutoshi Kanamori, Makoto Yamada, Makoto Shimizu
627 pages.
Copyright 1997.







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“ The text is well illustrated and each chapter has an extensive bibliography with typically more than 300 references to what is a very active field.”
---Society of Glass Technology, December 2000

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If you're an engineer or researcher in optical communications or a related field, you'll welcome this authoritative guide that provides you with a totally up-to-date review of optical fiber amplifier technology:

• Overview and related technologies
  
• OF amplifier requirements
  
• Energy states of rare earth ions in condensed materials and optical amplification transitions
  
• Rare earth doped fiber design techniques and the microscopic structure of rare earth doped glasses
  
• Device technology and amplification characteristics

1. Introduction: Brief History of Optics and Quantum Electronics. Brief History of Physics and Alternating Growth of Science and Technology. Brief History of Optical Fiber Amplifiers. Brief History of Optical Communications, Transmission Media, and Optical Fibers.

2.Outline of Optical Fiber Amplifiers: Application Systems and Requirements for Optical Fiber Amplifiers. Outline of Rare-Earth Ions and Amplification in Fibers. Key Issues for Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers. Key Issues Regarding Praseodymium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers. Other Wavelength Amplifiers. Key Issues Regarding Fabrication Technologies and Material Structures. Recent Topics on Amplified Systems.

3. Rare-Earth Ions in Glasses and Transitions for Optical Amplification: The Configuration of the 4 f States in Condensed Materials. The Judd-Ofelt Theory for Determining Transition Intensities. Other Procedures for Obtaining Emission Cross Sections. Energy Transfer Phenomena Between Rare Earths. Nonradiative Relaxation by the Multiphonon Emission Process. Spectral Broadening Phenomena. Three- and Four-Level Amplifier Systems.

4. Fiber Materials and Fabrications: Fiber Materials and Compositions. Transmission Loss of Fiber Materials. Thermal Properties of Fiber Materials. High-Silica Fiber Fabrication Process and Rare-Earth Doping. Multicomponent Glass Fiber Fabrication Process. Fluoride Fiber Fabrication Process. Chalcogenide Fiber Fabrication Process. Crystalline Fiber Fabrication Process. Reliability of Amplifier Host Fibers.

5. Amplification Characteristics of a Fiber Amplifier -- Components, Design, and Amplification Characteristics of a Fiber Amplifier Module: Fiber Amplifier Related Devices. Amplification Characteristics of Fiber Amplifiers Modules.

6. Conclusions

Author Bio

Shoichi Sudo is a group leader of optical fiber amplifiers at NTT Laboratories, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo. A recipient of 5 engineering awards, Dr. Sudo has published more than 70 professional papers, and holds over 90 patents. He is the author of Frequency Stabilization of Semiconductor Laser Diodes , also published by Artech House (1995).