Optical Amplifier

Optical Fiber 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 the cavity is suppressed....

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High speed advocates push to deploy more fiber in San Francisco

While many parts of the United States are still playing catch-up when it comes to high-speed internet, two outspoken advocates for the cause are doing what they can to deploy more fiber in San Francisco. Dana Sniezko, a nonprofit Web developer and technology activist who started the informative site...

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What is Bandwidth of an optical fiber why there is a big demand?

Today, while reading through the history of Internet, interestingly it came to the notice that the name given to Internet was ARPAnet when it was invented in the 1970s. U.S department of Defense used this ARPAnet to link research computers. SONET system was there in the 1970s as redundant ring network....

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BSNL offers city 100 Mbps with fibre network to Pune

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Pune has come up with a “fibre to the home” (FTTH) service in Pune, which will offer its customers bandwidth speed up to 100 Mbps (mega bytes per second). This was disclosed by BSNL principal general manager, VK Mahendra at a press conference held in the city...

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