Applications and Advances of Fiber Optic Sensors

Background Over the past decades, fiber optic technology has revolutionized the telecommunications industry, enabling high-capacity, long-distance communications and networking at staggeringly low costs. Fiber optics have also played important roles in numerous other applications: They have been used to deliver light for precision marking and cutting; as a practical, high-power, high-coherence laser source; for imaging […]

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Viable Alternative for Next Generation FTTH – WDM-PON

Introduction In recent years, most of the FTTH deployments have been based on industry standard technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GEPON) and Gigabit PON (GPON). The success of these deployments has led to significant innovation in both system architecture and the components that are used to build these systems, and the next […]

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Passive and Active Network Fundamentals

Today we have access to more information than ever before. We live in a digital world and bandwidth is what makes a digital world happen. Aging copper networks are being taxed by residential and business customers. However, Passive Optical Network (PON) such as Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) are increasingly being deployed to meet the current and future […]

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The Basic Parameters of Passive Optical Network Devices

There are many devices elementary but necessary for the Passive Optical Network (PON) applications that require the transmission, combining, or distribution of optical signals. These passive devices include the Optical Splitter/Coupler, Optical Switch, Optical Attenuator, Optical Isolator, Optical Amplifier, and WDM Filters (CWDM/DWDM Multiplexer) etc. Tips: The passive devices are components that do not require […]

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