Volume 5, Issue 2

Jeff Hecht, Contributing EditorThe technology for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers is growing explosively. First demonstrated only about a decade ago, the VCSEL is a major...

There's no avoiding the fact that China now dominates the optical networking industry. True, it's not the largest market (although it is the fastest growing) or the most technically...

Stephen J. Matthews, Contributing EditorNetwork downtime and congestion result in financial losses for users and revenue penalties for carriers. The performance of optical networks...

Joseph E. GortychIntellectual property (IP) is the somewhat pretentious name used to describe various forms of creative works, the rights to which can be protected using legal...

Jocelyn LauzonOptical fibers developed for telecommunications have always been made to meet severe transmission attenuation and dispersion specifications, but rarely has the constraint...