Community antenna television (CATV or cable TV) networks were developed several decades ago to deliver a few channels of analog television to a fraction of the homes in a small...
A 1.55 mm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that can supply high bit rates for the metro market was reported in a postdeadline paper at ECOC 2002 (Copenhagen, Denmark...
Jitter control in serializer/deserializer (SERDES) design is essential to the performance of optical transponder modules for communications applications. The three performance...
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...
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....
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...