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Lucent Demonstrates 100-Channel Amplifier

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Terrence K. O'Brien

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Canada -- Lucent Technologies has demonstrated a 100-channel optical amplifier that could revolutionize optical networking technology, according to the company. The experimental ultra-wideband optical fiber amplifier can boost lightwave signals carried simultaneously over 100 or more channels of light, company officials said. The optical amplifier spans 80 nm, nearly seven times the optical bandwidth of current commercial wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) communications systems. They said the bandwidth is three times that of erbium-doped fluoride amplifiers,...Read full article

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