Volume 4, Issue 7

By Yvonne Carts–PowellErik Skogen and others at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed a novel quantum–well intermixing technique that can be used to create...

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...

By Uri Levy and David MenasheThe noise figure of line amplifiers has a major impact on system performance. High–order mode fiber–based dispersion–management devices offer system...

By David Teed, Paul Vella, Mark Jamensky, and Hamid JahaniIn advanced, dynamic networks, functions such as amplification, signal conditioning, and optical–channel monitoring must...

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...