In laymens terms, What?
What practical applications does this actually mean? Smaller electrionics due to increased signal strength?
communications, imaging, computing...........
Imaging, for instance a camera that can see in very dark areas..................
I imagine it’ll help with budgeting signal loss in fiber optics. Right now long range fiber has a loss per km. Better amplification I presume could allow longer distance between amplifiers which reduces latency, errors, and infrastructure.
Smaller electronics, yes but not solely due to increased signal strength. There is also significant reduction in noise. This will work to reduce the need for post signal filtering and correction. Possibly removing substantial amounts of post signal correction.
Of the two positives (better signal strength and lower noise), I am of the opinion that lower noise will remove more of the size of components from the mix.