At ECOC 2002 (Copenhagen, Denmark), Graeme Maxwell and others at Corning Research Centre (Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, England) reported integrating a low-coupling-loss all-optical...
Integration of WDM channel selectors should be significantly simpler now that it an optical gate isn't needed for each channel. A new two-stage device in development at NTT Photonics...
Jitter control in serializer/deserializer (SERDES) design is essential to the performance of optical transponder modules for communications applications. The three performance...
In his 1957 novel Homo Faber, Swiss writer Max Frisch defined technology as "the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." It's a challenging observation...
Kristina Johnson is dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Previously she was director of the NSF/ERC Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center at the University...
While core and metro optical networks are the linchpin of the global telecommunications infrastructure, the architecture of the optical access network is still in development....
Coarse WDM (CWDM) is a 4, 8, or 16 wavelength-per-fiber technology developed in 2000 and now widely used for metro networking over Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel switching...
At the IEEE LEOS Summer Topical Meetings in July, Christi K. Madsen and others at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ) reported using integrated ring resonators...
The idea of the photonic bandgap is opening new possibilities in optical fiber design. Light-guiding in conventional optical fibers depends on total internal reflection at the...
