Volume 4, Issue 8

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, ...

new products1 TEST PLATFORMThe CMA5000 multilayer, modular, network test platform performs testing of various characteristics in the physical, data link, network, and transport...

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...

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...

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...