Physics in the Whirlwind of Optical Communications
DOI: 10.1063/1.1325229
Technology is providing people all over the world with much better ways of communicating than ever before, and the winds of change have whipped up the desire to exchange more of everything from messages to movies. This demand for more bandwidth in communications is powering a whirlwind of changes in technology. As Dorothy said to her dog in the Land of Oz, “Toto, I have a feeling that we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
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Gordon A. Thomas, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
David A. Ackerman, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies.
Paul R. Prucnal, Lightwave Communications Laboratory, Princeton University.
S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign.
