DocumentCode
161777
Title
Historical perspective on long-haul guided-wave transmission technologies
Author
Essiambre, R.-J.
Author_Institution
Crawford Hill Lab., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
fYear
2014
fDate
21-25 Sept. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
We survey historical guided-wave technologies developed for high-capacity long-haul transport. This includes hollow waveguides, gas and glass lenses and optical fibers. For optical fibers, we focus on the developments of the last 20 years.
Keywords
lenses; optical fibre networks; optical waveguides; gas; glass lenses; high-capacity long-haul transport network; hollow waveguides; long-haul guided-wave transmission technology; optical fibers; Lenses; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical solitons;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location
Cannes
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964256
Filename
6964256
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