Applications of Photonic Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Optical Telecommunications

   1. Fiber to the Digitally Passive Coax: The Multimedia Delivery Network of the Future?

      • Jack B. Terry

      Pages 1-10

   2. The Role and Challenges of Fiber Optics Technology in the Access Telecommunications Network

      • Rolando Oliver, Samih Elhage, Stéphane É. Brisebois

      Pages 11-14

   3. Some Architectural Considerations for Large-Scale Fail-Safe ATM-SONET Networks

      • Marion R. Finley Jr., Hawa Sininta

      Pages 15-18

   4. Design, Implementation, and System Integration for a Multi-Gigabit WDM Network

      • Hossein Izadpanah, Chinlon Lin

      Pages 19-24

   5. Laser Diode Frequency Control for Multiwavelength (WDM) Optical Communications

      • M. Têtu, B. Villeneuve, C. Gamache, M. Guy, C. Paquet, C. Latrasse et al.

      Pages 25-31

   6. A Single-Hop Wavelength-Routed Local Area Network

      • Mark W. Janoska, Terence D. Todd

      Pages 33-36

   7. OCRInet: An ATM Broadband Research Network

      • Alan Aitken, Gavin McLintock, Jim Yuan, Don Assaff, Jim Freeze, Robert Kuley et al.

      Pages 37-41

   8. Efficient Coding and Mapping in Photon Communication Systems

      • G. Cancellieri, F. Chiaraluce, E. Gambi

      Pages 43-47

   9. Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Optical Fibers with Distributed Gain

      • Mário F. Ferreira

      Pages 49-52

   10. Limitations Imposed by Stimulated Raman Scattering on 1550 nm High-Energy Pulse Transmission

       • C. W. Barnard, P. Myslinski, J. Chrostowski, X. Pan, M. Kavehrad

       Pages 53-56

   11. On a Formulation for the Pulse Jitter Induced by Spontaneous-Emission Noise of Optical Amplifiers

       • Adolfo V. T. Cartaxo

       Pages 57-60

   12. Multi-Dual Ring Connected Shuffle Network — A Better Architecture for WAN

       • Feng Liu, Mohsen Kavehrad

       Pages 61-65

   13. An All-Optical Tunable Filter for Low-Crosstalk Wavelength Routing in WDM Networks

       • F. Khaleghi, M. Kavehrad, E. Simova

       Pages 67-71

   14. Bit-Error-Rate of an SCM/WDMA Optical Network Employing Polarization Scrambling under Optical Beat Interference

       • Mohammad M. Banat, Mohsen Kavehrad

       Pages 73-77

   15. Influence of the Optical Fibre Dispersion on the Square Synchronizer Timing Jitter

       • Adolfo V. T. Cartaxo, Augusto A. de Albuquerque

       Pages 79-82

   16. Evolution of Pulse Parameters in Nonlinear Dispersive Fibers

       • Mirosław Florjańczyk, Réal Tremblay

       Pages 83-86

   17. Influence of the Nonuniform FM Response of DFB Lasers on CPFSK Lightwave Systems with Noncoherent Detection

       • John Cartledge, Joanne Lennon

       Pages 87-91

3. Optical Routing, Computing and Processing

   1. A New Photonic Architecture for Simple Routing Processors

      • Castagnolo Beniamino, Nuovo Michele, Rizzi Maria

      Pages 93-96

   2. Algorithms for High-Performance Computing with Smart Pixels

      • Dietmar Fey, Werner Erhard

      Pages 97-100

In this book we present a snapshot of the state of the art in photonics in 1994, showing typical applications and emerging new ones; discussing the key technologies behind these applications, their limitations, and prospects. The articles in this book are extended versions of the papers presented at the first International Conference on Applications ofPhotonic Technology (ICAPT'94), held in Toronto, Canada, on June 21-23, 1994. Photonics has been recognized as one of the key technologies for the 21 st century, as electronics was the technology of the 20th centrury and electrical engineering changed the life of people in the 19th century. According to the recent report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris (OECD), the market for photonics will grow dramatically in the next 10 years with an expected world-wide expenditure of US $230 billion from some US $30 billion in 1992. The explosion of information technology was the largest driving force for the deployment of photonic technology. It created insatiable demand for ever-higher data transmission and processing rates, which cannot be sustained by electronics alone. Boosted by the enonnous investment of the telecommunications and defense industries, the demand for photonics (or optoelectronics) is steadily increasing. It is solidly established in the long­ haul communications, laser printers and CD-ROMs.

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• communication
• data transmission
• development
• electrical engineering
• electronics
• integrated circuit
• laser
• multimedia
• network
• optics
• photonics
• transmission

• A.U.G. Signals Ltd., Toronto, Canada

  George A. Lampropoulos

• National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

  Jacek Chrostowski

• Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, Downsview, Canada

  Raymond M. Measures

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