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The Development of Optical Amplifiers

Optical amplifiers are important in optical communication and laser physics. They are used as optical repeaters in the long distance fiber-optic cables which carry much of the world's telecommunication links.OverviewAn optical amplifier is a device that amplifies an directly, without the need to first convert it to an electrical signal. An optical amplifier may be thought of as a without an, or one in which. The principle of optical amplification was invented by on November 13, 1957. He filed US Patent US80453959A on April 6, 1959, titled "Light Amplifiers Employing Collisions to Produce Population Inversions".

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