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editI added some factual information about the LOA, developed by Genoa, where I worked in the past. Genoa no longer exists, and the LOA is no longer fabricated. Why was my edit removed? LS
- I was on vandal/POV patrol monitering huge lists of edits. It noticed the pov word "unfortunetely". Just remove that word and it will be fine. Thanks.Voice of AllT|@|ESP 21:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
- Done. Thanks for the vigilance. LS
(just passing by, & can't help but note the irony of you 'monitering' for a pov word that was also incorrectly spelled) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duncanrmi (talk • contribs) 21:07, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
Correct? The article states: "As the signal power increases, or the pump power increases, the inversion level will reduce and thereby the gain of the amplifier will be reduced"
Will the inversion level really reduce when the pump power increases? Shouldn't it be: "As the signal power increases, or the pump power decreases, the inversion level will reduce and thereby the gain of the amplifier will be reduced"
on proposed submerge of the Raman amplification into Optical Amplifier
editI'd rather suggest merging Raman amplification with Raman scattering#Stimulated Raman scattering and Raman amplification article for the following reasons:
- Raman amplification currently restates Raman scattering# Stokes and anti-Stokes part of article - Optical amplifier article is currently devoted to the telecoms, while Raman amplification generally has a wider range of applications
Merge of EDWA into optical amplifier
edit- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- The result of this discussion was to Merge
If EDFA doesn't merit it's own page, then EDWA certainly doesn't. EDFAs are widely used; EDWAs hardly made it out of the lab. Opticalgirl (talk) 15:38, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
- No disgreements or comments in over a year. I plan to go ahead with the merge then. --Opticalgirl (talk) 17:07, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I say do it. --Srodrig
I agree, the articles should be merged. Mikes (talk) 20:02, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- Done. --Wtshymanski (talk) 22:57, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Vertical-cavity SOA
editThis sentence: "SOAs have a more rapid gain response, which is in the order of 1 to 100ps." seems a little contextually isolated as there's no mention of what the "gain response" of VCSOAs is. -- Dougher (talk) 17:38, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Assessment comment
editThe comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Optical amplifier/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
| What is "inhomogenous"? Shouldn't that be "heterogenous"? 203.153.233.5 23:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC) |
Last edited at 23:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 01:55, 30 April 2016 (UTC)