Abstract
Erbium fiber amplifiers are entering a fourth year of development with six commercial offerings now available, the result of rapid improvements in pump lasers, wavelength division multplexers, isolators and doped fiber designs. A number of challenges remain however to improve the performance and ensure reliability in field applications.
© 1991 Optical Society of America
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