DocumentCode
600396
Title
Thermodynamic aspects of erbium doped fiber amplifiers
Author
Aleksic, Slavica
Author_Institution
Inst. of Telecommun., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
fYear
2012
fDate
4-8 March 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
This paper shows analogies between rare-earth doped fiber amplifiers and some thermodynamic systems and presents thermodynamic macroscopic and microscopic models for evaluating energy conversion efficiency and flow of energy and entropy in erbium doped fibers.
Keywords
entropy; erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; thermodynamics; energy conversion efficiency; energy flow; entropy; erbium doped fiber amplifiers; rare earth doped fiber amplifier; thermodynamic aspects; thermodynamic macroscopic; thermodynamic microscopic model; thermodynamic systems; Entropy; Erbium; Heat engines; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Thermodynamics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA
ISSN
pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0262-3
Type
conf
Filename
6476219
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