Big Hopes for Small Lasers
The growth in telecommunications, data storage and data processing is driving fiber optic data communications to progress at a breathtaking rate. At the "edge" of the network, outside the dense wavelength division multiplexed long-haul core, is the "fine-grained" portion of the information infrastructure. This is where dense fiber optic links transport information across backplanes of central office switches and along high-bandwidth backbones between switches, routers and high-volume memory ...
Photonics Spectra, May 2000