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...