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Chapter 8 Multichannel Systems In principle, the capacity of optical communication systems can exceed 10 Tb/s be- cause of a lar ...

8.1. WDM LIGHTWAVE SYSTEMS 331 Figure 8.1: Low-loss transmission windows of silica fibers in the wavelength regions near 1.3 and ...

332 CHAPTER 8. MULTICHANNEL SYSTEMS Tx Tx Tx Figure 8.2: Multichannel point-to-point fiber link. Separate transmitter-receiver p ...

8.1. WDM LIGHTWAVE SYSTEMS 333 Table 8.1 High-capacity WDM transmission experiments Channels Bit Rate Capacity Distance NBLProdu ...

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8.1. WDM LIGHTWAVE SYSTEMS 335 Figure 8.3: An example of a wide-area network in the form of several interconnected SONET rings. ...

336 CHAPTER 8. MULTICHANNEL SYSTEMS Figure 8.4: A WDM network with a feeder ring connected to several local distribution network ...

8.1. WDM LIGHTWAVE SYSTEMS 337 Figure 8.5: Schematic of the Lambdanet withNnodes. Each node consists of one transmitter andNrece ...

338 CHAPTER 8. MULTICHANNEL SYSTEMS Figure 8.6: Passive photonic loop for local-loop applications. (After Ref. [31];©c1988 IEE; ...

8.2. WDM COMPONENTS 339 Figure 8.7: Channel selection through a tunable optical filter. 8.2 WDM Components The implementation of ...

340 CHAPTER 8. MULTICHANNEL SYSTEMS Figure 8.8: Four kinds of filters based on various interferometric and diffractive devices: ...

8.2. WDM COMPONENTS 341 whereNis the number of channels,ηsis the spectral efficiency, andBis the bit rate. At the same time, the ...