TY - BOOK AU - Ibrahim Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim Maged AU - Mahmoud Fathi Mahmoud , AU - Yehia Badr , TI - Optimization of Er³⁺ doped glass used as optical fiber amplifier (EDFA) for telecommunication applications / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ibrahim Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim Maged , KW - Conventional melting and quenching method KW - Erbinm doped fiber amplifier KW - Optical fiber amplifier N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - National Institute of Laser Enhanced - Department of Laser Science and Interaction; Issued also as CD N2 - The conventional melting and quenching method were used in the preparation of the Er³⁺: Yb³⁺ co-doped potassium-lead-germanate glass with optimum ratio 0.5 mol. % of Er ³⁺ and 2.5 mol. % of Yb ³⁺ (1:5) . Raman spectroscopy and FT - IR were used to study the structure and the vibrational modes of this glass . Measurement of Raman spectrosopy showed that the maximum phonon enrgy of this glass was approximately 811 cm⁻¹ ER -