optical amplifier

  • 1Optical amplifier — An optical amplifier is a device that amplifies an optical signal directly, without the need to first convert it to an electrical signal. An optical amplifier may be thought of as a laser without an optical cavity, or one in which feedback from… …

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  • 2Optical lens design — refers to the calculation of lens construction parameters (variables) that will meet a set of performance requirements and constraints, including cost and schedule limitations. Construction parameters include surface profile types (spherical,… …

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  • 3Amplifier — For other uses, see Amplifier (disambiguation). Generally, an amplifier or simply amp, is a device for increasing the power of a signal. In popular use, the term usually describes an electronic amplifier, in which the input signal is usually a… …

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  • 4Optical fiber — A bundle of optical fibers A TOSLINK fiber optic audio c …

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  • 5Optical communications repeater — An optical communications repeater is used in a fiber optic communications system to regenerate an optical signal by converting it to an electrical signal, processing that electrical signal and then retransmitting an optical signal. Such… …

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  • 6Optical power meter — in use An optical power meter (OPM) is a device used to measure the power in an optical signal. The term usually refers to a device for testing average power in fiber optic systems. Other general purpose light power measuring devices are usually… …

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  • 7Optical communication — is any form of telecommunication that uses light as the transmission medium. An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a… …

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  • 8Optical pickups — are instrument pickups that use infrared light LEDs and photodetectors to sense the string vibration on a guitar or electric bass. Typically, electric guitars and bass guitars use magnetic pickups which can induce extraneous noise or magnetic hum …

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  • 9Optical parametric amplifier — An optical parametric amplifier, abbreviated OPA, is a laser light source that emits light of variable wavelengths by an optical parametric amplification process. Contents 1 Optical parametric generation (OPG) 2 Optical parametric amplification… …

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  • 10Optical hybrid — A 90° optical hybrid is a six port device that is used for coherent signal demodulation for either homodyne or heterodyne detection. It would mix the incoming signal with the four quadratural states associated with the reference signal in the… …

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