Title :
Progress in optical communications for commercial terrestrial telecommunication networks
Author_Institution :
Texas Univ., Arlington, TX, USA
Abstract :
The past decade has witnessed many advances that have considerably improved the capacity, span length between regenerators, network reliability, survivability, and flexibility, as well as moving optical technology to the local loop to provide cost effective multimedia services to subscribers. The device, component, and network architecture advances that resulted in this progress are described.
Keywords :
multimedia communication; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network reliability; capacity; flexibility; local loop; multimedia services; network architecture; network reliability; optical communications; span length; survivability; terrestrial telecommunication networks; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Intelligent networks; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Repeaters; Telecommunications;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Symposium Digest, 1996., IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3246-6
DOI :
10.1109/MWSYM.1996.512173
