#opticalfibres — Public Fediverse posts
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"In 1985, then graduate student Robert Mears first described the erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), a device that uses the energy from a laser to amplify signals passing through a chemically modified optical fiber. [...] Without it, long-distance telecommunication would be limited and expensive."