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Optical fiber

Known as: Fiber-optic technology, Fibre-optic network, Principle and propagation of light in optical fibre 
An optical fiber (or optical fibre) is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than… (More)
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2010
Review
2010
Capacity Limits of Optical Fiber Networks
We describe a method to estimate the capacity limit of fiber-optic communication systems (or ¿fiber channels¿) based on… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Fiber to the Home Using a PON Infrastructure
Traffic patterns in access networks have evolved from voice- and text-oriented services to video- and image-based services. This… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Optical fiber sensor technologies: opportunities and-perhaps-pitfalls
Fiber optic sensor technology has wide-ranging potential in sensing and measurement and the aim of this paper is to explore the… (More)
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2004
2004
Tunable microfluidic optical fiber
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Pumped microfluidics provides a powerful new way to dynamically tune the transmission characteristics of optical fibers. We… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Measurement of Brillouin Gain Spectrum Distribution along an Optical Fiber Using a Correlation-Based Technique—Proposal, Experiment and Simulation—
Brillouin scattering in optical fibers offers a means for distributed strain and/or temperature sensor [1], [2]. Strain or… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Brillouin Gain Spectrum Characterization In Single-mode Optical Fibers - Lightwave Technology, Journal of
A novel method for Brillouin gain spectrum measurements in optical fibers is presented. It is based on the pump and probe… (More)
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Lightpath communications: an approach to high bandwidth optical WAN's
Abstruct-Emerging applications require a substantially higher bandwidth than the one offered by current network. The technology… (More)
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Tensile strain dependence of Brillouin frequency shift in silica optical fibers
Brillouin frequency shift in a single-mode optical fiber has been measured as a function of tensile strain. The strain… (More)
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Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Optical fiber communications systems development in the UK
F OLLOWING the invention of the laser, work commenced during the early 1960s on the use of light waves for telecommunications… (More)
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Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Optical Fiber Communication Systems in Japan
A dream of telecommunication engineers has long been a development of practical transmission media for large capacity… (More)
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