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    Components

    Optimizing 1.55-µm VCSELs yields thinner DBRs

    Nov. 1, 2002
    Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) emitting at telecom wavelengths offer low threshold currents, single-mode operation, high coupling efficiencies into fiber, and...
    109814
    Network Design

    Zero-water-peak fiber extends metro CWDM reach

    Nov. 1, 2002
    After being proposed to standards bodies only two years ago, coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (CWDM) is introducing low-cost, commercial multiwavelength optical systems...
    109826
    Components

    Electromagnetic MEMS drive large-scale crossconnects

    Nov. 1, 2002
    A myriad of actuation mechanisms are feasible using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), from thermal to electrostatic to thermal-fluidic. Electromagnetic actuation in MEMS ...
    109839
    Transport

    New Products

    Nov. 1, 2002
    The FRM5W232BS receiver module is an InGaAs avalanche photodiode detector incorporating a GaAs IC transimpedance preamplifier and a 10-kohm thermistor in a mini-DIL-type package...
    DWDM & ROADM

    Future proof

    Nov. 1, 2002
    Jetlagged visitors to both ECOC in Copenhagen and NFOEC in Dallas can attest to light traffic on exhibit floors and endless pondering over where the market is going and when it...

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    109833
    DWDM & ROADM

    Etalons provide wavelength stabilization across the ITU grid

    Nov. 1, 2002
    Almost from the beginning, stabilization of laser wavelength and narrowing of the spectral bandwidth was an important technology needed for some laser applications. At the time...