With my predisposition to optics, I once felt that optical components such as lasers, amplifiers, and switches somehow dominate the physical infrastructure of the network—and ...
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 Yvonne Carts-PowellResearchers from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and Aston University (Birmingham, England) recently demonstrated an actively modelocked, dual-wavelength...
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...
By Mark AlbertMitigating chromatic dispersion and PMD requires reliable and accurate measurement methods and solutions. Measurement methods include phase-shift modulation, polarization...
