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  • Volume 4, Issue 8

    • Volume 4, Issue 8

    98578
    DWDM & ROADM

    Flexible OADMs manage metro traffic

    Aug. 1, 2002
    By Jim SauerIn a typical long–haul DWDM network, static OADM architectures make sense. For metro, a flexible architecture that combines band and per–channel filters often provides...
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    Defining moments

    Aug. 1, 2002
    W. Conard HoltonAssociate Publisher/Editor in [email protected] point at which one thing stops and another starts is often clear. Yet in the design of optical networks...
    98633
    DWDM & ROADM

    Emulated WDM sources test components and systems

    Aug. 1, 2002
    By Kevin Hsu and Mark JonesAs a manufacturing tool, a WDM emulator provides a test source that includes low loss, high channel contrast, clean spectral profiles, tunability, grid...
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    Transmission

    The tunable effect: Who will enable the next–generation

    Aug. 1, 2002
    By John DunneIt is no longer easy to decouple component and system functions or vendors. This blurring creates a new layer of responsibility—and opportunity—within the overall...
    98566
    Network Design

    Suppressing sidelobes in fiber Bragg gratings

    Aug. 1, 2002
    By Yvonne Carts–PowellA method of making Bragg gratings in fiber removes crosstalk–inducing sidelobes. Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), which act as wavelength–selective mirrors, ...

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    Transmission

    New Products

    Aug. 1, 2002
    new products1 TEST PLATFORMThe CMA5000 multilayer, modular, network test platform performs testing of various characteristics in the physical, data link, network, and transport...
    98628
    DWDM & ROADM

    Microrobotics speeds waveguide production, improves quality

    Aug. 1, 2002
    By Scott JordanAligning optical fibers and V–groove arrays to waveguide channels is difficult and can result in low production yields and high losses. Alignment automation based...