Patent 7333263 was granted and assigned to National Sun Yat-sen University on February, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An optical amplifier includes an optical fiber having a core doped with transition metal ions, and at least one glass cladding enclosing the core. By using the fiber, the optical amplifier of the invention has a gain bandwidth of more than 300 nm including 1300-1600 nm band in low-loss optical communication.