{"id":2779,"date":"2026-08-26T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:10:08","slug":"erbium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/erbium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Erbium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erbium is a rare earth metal widely used as a dopant in fiber optic amplifiers and lasers for telecommunications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Erbium<\/strong> | It exhibits +3 oxidation state and provides emission at wavelengths ideal for optical communications around 1.5 ?m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Erbium<\/strong> | Key use as erbium doped fiber amplifiers EDFAs, in lasers, glass coloring and metallurgical applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Erbium<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Er 166 to Er 170; erbium compounds are of low acute toxicity and handled with routine precautions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lanthanide used in fiber optics and lasers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}