fiber-optic multiplexing
31List of optical topics — Probably some Wikipedia articles on topics in optics are not yet listed on this page. If you cannot find the topic you are interested in on this page, the article may nonetheless exist; you can try to find it using the Search box, or look in and… …
32Optical amplifier — An optical amplifier is a device that amplifies an optical signal directly, without the need to first convert it to an electrical signal. An optical amplifier may be thought of as a laser without an optical cavity, or one in which feedback from… …
33Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer — Siemens DSLAM SURPASS hiX 5625 A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM, often pronounced dee slam) is a network device, located in the telephone exchanges of the telecommunications operators. It connects multiple customer Digital… …
34Soliton (optics) — In optics, the term soliton is used to refer to any optical field that does not change during propagation because of a delicate balance between nonlinear and linear effects in the medium. There are two main kinds of solitons: spatial solitons:… …
35Optical communications repeater — An optical communications repeater is used in a fiber optic communications system to regenerate an optical signal by converting it to an electrical signal, processing that electrical signal and then retransmitting an optical signal. Such… …
36Optical Society of America — The Optical Society of America (OSA) is a scientific society dedicated to advancing the study of light optics and photonics in theory and application, by means of worldwide research, scientific publishing, conferences and exhibitions, partnership …
37Return loss — In telecommunications, return loss or reflection loss is the loss of signal power resulting from the reflection caused at a discontinuity in a transmission line or optical fiber. This discontinuity can be a mismatch with the terminating load or… …
38Digital subscriber line access multiplexer — A Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM, often pronounced dee slam ) allows telephone lines to make faster connections to the Internet. It is a network device, located in the telephony exchanges of the service providers, that connects …
39Public switched telephone network — The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the network of the world s public circuit switched telephone networks. It consists of telephone lines, fiber optic cables, microwave transmission links, cellular networks, communications satellites …
40Biochip — The development of biochips is a major thrust of the rapidly growing biotechnology industry, which encompasses a very diverse range ofresearch efforts including genomics, proteomics, computational biology, and pharmaceuticals, among other… …
