
Optical amplification in lightwave systems became practical with the invention of the Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) in the late 1980s. This talk will trace the early work on the erbium-doped fiber and the enabling technologies that took the EDFA from lab experiments to its wide deployment resulting in a dramatic bandwidth expansion of commercial lightwave systems.
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