erbium

Most of the voltage drop along the cable is caused by conversion of electrical energy into photons within the erbium-doped fiber amplifiers.

The mixed light is guided into a section of fiber with erbium ions included in the core.

Can these erbium qubits be entangled over fiber, controlled by a quantum processor?

I've been trying to understand the noise temperature of erbium doped fiber amplifiers- not nearly as good as DSN masers.

This high-powered light beam excites the erbium ions to their higher-energy state.

I think some power electronics uses europium silicide (or was that erbium?) as a gate material, so maybe in inverters?

Here’s Wikipedia on erbium-doped fiber amplifiers: > A relatively high-powered beam of light is mixed with the input signal using a wavelength selective coupler (WSC).

Neutrons whizzing through the Erbium matrix don't ever strike those nuclei?

When the photons belonging to the signal at a different wavelength from the pump light meet the excited erbium ions, the erbium ions give up some of their energy to the signal and return to their lower-energy state.

I other words a piece of fibre doped with Erbium (a rare earth).

Also, I don't see this technology being compatible with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers.

I really thought they were making up the name 'erbium'.

An old TRS-80 assembly programming book I had suggested that an early conference of computer experts suggested that the last six digits be named actinium, barium, curium, dysprosium, erbium, and fermium until "cooler heads prevailed".

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers work by utilizing a nonlinear optical effect where energy is transferred from a pump laser to the signal.

Something extremely rare, say Erbium, would be evidence that these are extra-terrestrial parts.

Erbium perhaps for some power semiconductors, but in very small amounts.