Doped fiber amplifier (The typical representative: EDFA) Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is the most widely used fiber-optic amplifiers, mainly made of Erbium-doped fiber (EDF), pump light source, optical couplers, optical isolators, optical filters and other components.
Noun. 1. national income-the total value of all income in a nation (wages and profits and interest and rents and pension payments) during a given period (usually 1 yr).
Gross national income (GNI) is defined as the sum of value added by all producers who are residents in a nation, plus any product taxes (minus subsidies) not included in output, plus income received from abroad such as employee compensation and property income.REAKING DOWN 'Gross National Income (GNI)'. For most nations there is little difference between GDP and GNI, since the difference between income received by the country versus payments made to the rest of the world is not significant, as the income flows tend to balance each other out.