Craig Thompson, Kathryn Li Dessau, and Yonglin HuangNew long-haul and metro networks require flexible, high-performance amplifiers. Hybrid passive components and modules provide...
By Scott DeMangeFiber Bragg gratings have been the technology of choice in 50-GHz optical add/drop multiplexers. Advances in deposition techniques and design have created competitive...
1 OPTICAL TEST SETThe OTS9600 series of optical test modules is a swept-wavelength measurement system for physical-layer testing of passive optical components. It automatically...
By Sunny BainsA new kind of continuous-wave parametric amplifier that balances three different types of fiber nonlinearity was reported in a postdeadline paper at OFC 2002 in ...
By Sunny BainsA new electronic device allows the time delay between orthogonally polarized beams to be tuned in less than a millisecond with a resolution of just over a picosecond...
By Yvonne Carts-PowellKostadin Djordjev and others in P. Daniel Dapkus? group at the University of Southern California (USC; Los Angeles) have reported making active switching...
By Gary Mading and Jim BoydMust vendors upgrade to faster test equipment to support higher data rates? The basic principles of the MEMS switching process demonstrate why BER tests...
