Raman Amplifiers for Telecommunications 1: Physical Principles

I remember vividly the first time that I heard about the—ber amplifier. At that time, of course, it was the erbium—doped—ber amplifier, the predecessor of the Raman amplifier 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...