fiber-optic multiplexing
21Optical line termination — An optical line termination (OLT), also called an optical line terminal, is a device which serves as the service provider endpoint of a passive optical network. It provides two main functions: to perform conversion between the electrical signals… …
22Index of optics articles — Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.[1] Optics usually describes the behavior of visible,… …
23Photonics — Refraction of waves of photons (light) by a prism The science of photonics[1] includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching …
24Parallel optical interface — A parallel optical interface is a form of fiber optic technology aimed primarily at communications and networking over relatively short distances (less than 300 meters), and at high bandwidths. Parallel optic interfaces differ from traditional… …
25Mamyshev 2R regenerator — The Mamyshev 2R regenerator is an all optical regenerator used in optical communications. In 1998, Pavel V. Mamyshev of Bell Labs proposed and patented the use of the self phase modulation (SPM) for single channel optical pulse reshaping and re… …
26Optical Transport Network — ITU T defines an Optical Transport Network (OTN) as a set of Optical Network Elements (ONE) connected by optical fibre links, able to provide functionality of transport, multiplexing, switching, management, supervision and survivability of… …
27Computer network — Computer networks redirects here. For the periodical, see Computer Networks (journal). Datacom redirects here. For other uses, see Datacom (disambiguation). Internet map. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that… …
28Optical interleaver — Illustration of the function of an optical interleaver and de interleaver An optical interleaver is a 3 port passive fiber optic device that is used to combine two sets of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) channels (odd and even… …
29Soliton — In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a self reinforcing solitary wave (a wave packet or pulse) that maintains its shape while it travels at constant speed. Solitons are caused by a cancellation of nonlinear and dispersive effects in the… …
30Photonic integrated circuit — A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) or integrated optical circuit is a device that integrates multiple photonic functions and as such is analogous to an Electronic Integrated Circuit. The major difference between the two is that a photonic… …
