Lightwave micromachines for optical networks vast promise amid vaster promises

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 60-65

  Goldstein, Evan L ^a   Lin, Lin Yuan ^a   Walker, Jim A ^a  

^a Tellium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERNET; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROMACHINING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ROUTERS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

LIGHTWAVE MICROMACHINES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0035297259     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.12.3.000060     Document Type: Article

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