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    Transport

    Waveguide amplifier arrays enable metro design options

    Sept. 1, 2003
    Erbium-doped waveguide amplifier (EDWA) arrays promise to become an attractive alternative to erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs). EDWAs are smaller and more cost-effective ...
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    The real thing

    Sept. 1, 2003
    A running joke among workers in the old communist states was, "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us." Given the dearth of new system builds in our industry, a cynic ...
    Network Design

    Real and virtual worlds combine to speed network design

    Sept. 1, 2003
    Photonic simulation has become an integral step in the design cycle of optical networks. Armed with simulation software, a system engineer can alter the physical parameters of...