This text introduces the topic of optical amplification. It stresses the importance of the interrelation of materials properties, optical properties and systems aspects of optical fibre amplifiers. The book includes a disk which contains a PC-based educational version of the commercial amplifier simulation package OASIX. This software allows the reader to simulate the performance of a real erbium fibre amplifier and obtain its properties such as signal gain and noise generated. Several parameter sets are included, each of ...
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This text introduces the topic of optical amplification. It stresses the importance of the interrelation of materials properties, optical properties and systems aspects of optical fibre amplifiers. The book includes a disk which contains a PC-based educational version of the commercial amplifier simulation package OASIX. This software allows the reader to simulate the performance of a real erbium fibre amplifier and obtain its properties such as signal gain and noise generated. Several parameter sets are included, each of which represents a commercially available type of erbium doped fibre used in different kinds of amplifiers. The user can vary via Windows-based input screens various amplifier characteristics such as fibre length, pump power, signal power and additional signals. The output is saved in a file which can be read by any spreadsheet or plotting package for graphical representation of the results. The software allows the reader to explore the concepts of amplifier performance discussed in the book.
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