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What is Optical amplifier?

Definition 13.1 Networks, Hardware and Trading Infrastructure · Chapter 13 — Long-Haul Fibre

An optical amplifier restores the power of the light in a fibre without converting it to an electrical signal, typically by passing it through a few metres of fibre doped with a rare earth and pumped by a laser; placed at the end of each span, it lets a signal cross thousands of kilometres of glass.

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