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Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: Principles and Applications (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)

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This book should be updated to include the details of:

- Optical amplifier networks design - Optical amplifier link budet engineering

**Good** news for engineers and physicists : Volume II of "The EDFA book" is in progress, and will be released soon. The first volume, published in 1994, still provides unmatched reference for serious understanding of the complex EDFA physics. However, for causality reasons, it does not cover industrial developments that will appear only years later. Such developments have been sketched by more recent, wide-audience and shorter introductory books, but of limited use to the true specialists. Volume II will bridge such a gap and will provide the first XXIst century update in this field.

**Bad** news for some 'millioneers' in quest of quick-and-dirty EDFA expertise : Volume II will be as involved as volume I on the physics and mathematics side, while it will cover in depth the most recent industrial developments, with detailed contributions from corporate- and internationally-recognized developers. Definitely not to put in any hands or recommend to people who don't need to "know".

Emmanuel Desurvire

This book is too long and too old. It goes though tto much unnecessary math. It spends a lot of time on minor details, while avoiding some of the real issues - how to design a modern EDFA. Im mathematically inclined, so the math was not bad, but if you're pictorially inclined this is not the book for you.

I had high hopes for this book and tried to work with it for a long while (especially given the high price). However it is much too difficult to understand and does not explain things clearly. It is very confusing to follow and it seems like the author's mind was jumping around a lot in many of the chapters.

This is a great book! I have used it steadily for the last 3 years. Hardly a week goes by without my consulting it. I have learned many, many ideas concerning rare-earth doped fiber amplifiers from Desurvire's book. I have checked with my own calculations a large number of his equations and numerical results and I have found no significant errors. I have recalculated the curves in more than 10 figures with virtually no discrepancies. In my experience it is rare to find a book that even gives you enough information to check its results. The book comes with a two-page erratum to help you fix the few misprints. The reference list is comprehensive and complete up to the publication date. In the year 2001, there are naturally many topics that are missing from a book that was finished in April of 1993, but this does not decrease the importance of Desurvire's book because it treats so many basic topics at a fundamental level. I believe than any serious designer or researcher in the area of rare-earth-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers should have this book. There are other good books that are very useful for certain design applications, but they are not a substitute for this book.

Rarely an author captures the essense of the topic he/she is covering in such depth and clarity as E. Desurvire does in his EDFA book. Over the years I have found the book extremely useful and helpful in understanding all the intriguing notions involved in the EDFA performance. The book exposes the fundamental EDFA issues in great depth and detail and therefore it will always remain relevant and extremely useful. It always helps when the author of a book is one of the pioneers in the field he/she is covering.

**good news** would be a useful up to date EDFA book **bad news** (especially for the serious EDFA designer and researcher) Emmanuel Desurvire is attempting to write it. Will some one else please write this book? The above book is two flawed to be twinned on library shelves.

This book gives many details of the principle and application of EDFA