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If you had fallen into a deep sleep eight years ago--just before the U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 took effect--and woke up at the 2003 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference [...]

Starting with the principal of total internal reflection, which guides light through optical fiber, the fundamentals of optics have led to some very successful telecommunications products. Such products are needed [...]

July in Tokyo is hot and humid, with the sky close and gray. It frequently rains. The weather must have been similar when Commodore Perry and his fleet of four [...]

'When the market comes back' is a turn of phrase heard often in telecom circles. None of us knows exactly what that market will look like if and when it [...]

The days of booming demand for transmission fibers such as SMF-28, dispersion-shifted fiber, and nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber are a distant memory. New network builds are few. and large fiber production [...]

If the hero experiments that dominate conference post deadline papers were an exact predictor of market trends, then we could soon expect to see carriers deploy all-optical 160-Gbit/sec systems. Of [...]

Riding the escalator together to an OFC session on tunable lasers, I quipped to John Clark, president of iolon, that tunable-laser makers like him were the happiest folks at an [...]