The Evolution of Fiber Transmission in Optical Communications

Optical communication systems’ transmission capacity continues to be increasing forever. From telegraph systems carrying a few clicks per second a hundred years ago, towards the state-of-the-art, long-distance, DWDM Network systems carrying over one Tbps today, the capacity of wired long-haul systems has burgeoned in an average annual increase of around one third (or perhaps a […]

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Development Of WDM Technology

In the early times, fiber optic signal transmission is one wavelength in one fiber glass. People finally found a way, which is known the widely used WDM(Wavelength Division Multiplexing) technology nowadays, to enable various kinds of fiber optic light to transmit in a single fiber glass in different wavelength. In early WDM systems, there were […]

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Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifier

Optical amplifier is an optical communication system device. It amplifies an optical signal directly, without converting an optical signal into an electrical signal. Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is the first successful optical amplifier invented by the UK Southampton University and JP Tohoku University. It is one of the greatest invention in optical communication. Erbium-doped optical […]

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