Global undersea cable networks

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 32-35

  Bergano, Neal S ^a   Kidorf, Howard ^a  

^a TYCO TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER LASERS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ROUTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

LIGHTWAVE SYSTEMS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0035297273     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.12.3.000032     Document Type: Article

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