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  • Volume 4, Issue 7

    • Volume 4, Issue 7

    96414
    Transport

    Scalable EDFAs simplify metro design

    July 1, 2002
    By J.J. Pan, Joy Jiang, Xiangdong Qiu, Kejian GuanElimination of gain–flattening filters and pump–laser coolers makes the narrowband EDFA practical as an amplification solution...
    Market Research

    Good design wins

    July 1, 2002
    Telecommunications carriers today seem transfixed by the market like deer caught in car headlights—frozen in time while contemplating the harsh glare of debt and uncertain demand...
    96570
    Electronics

    New Products

    July 1, 2002
    1 PIN PHOTODIODESThe G8941 series of PIN photodiodes has a miniature ceramic package for laser–diode monitoring. The InGaAs diodes have a spectral response range of 0.9 to 1.7...
    96490
    High-Speed Networks

    DPSK offers alternative high–speed signal modulation

    July 1, 2002
    By Guy SauvéDifferential phase–shift keying has emerged as a strong candidate for modulating 40–Gbit/s signals. The author believes that DPSK demodulators based on fused–fiber...
    96405
    Packet Transport

    Novel method synchronizes 40?Gbit/s packets

    July 1, 2002
    By Yvonne Carts–PowellA novel method for packet–level system synchronization and address comparison in optical time–division multiplexing (OTDM) systems was recently demonstrated...

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    96482
    Transmission

    Discrete R–OADMs convert into four–plane crossconnects

    July 1, 2002
    By Ezekiel KruglickA case study shows the conversion of a dynamic optical add/drop multiplexer from a switch–based architecture to a four–plane crossconnect architecture. The ...