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Data transmission through optical fiber and copper wire
I read the following in one reference: A copper wire (twisted pair), the link traditionally associated with low bit rate transmission, is still in use in the modern data centers transmitting data at ...
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How to find peak power at 1550nm using an optical meter?
I have a setup of tunable laser source at 1550nm connected to a spectrometer(Can't publish the name of spectrometer). The spectrometer has a range of 1510-1595 nm. The graph shows wavelength vs ...
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Why non-linear fiber capacity limit decrease for higher signal-noise ratios?
In fiber optics communication, there is the concept of nonlinear Shannon limit (see e.g. this article), implying that the communication capacity of an optical fiber decreases for high SNR. I don’t ...
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