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How do you boost a signal in fiber optics across a ocean?

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The element Erbium is used to boost the light. Here is a link to a YouTube video that explains it far better than I could.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-DY_RT4fJ4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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