Fiber-optic communications

Hong Kong-British-American physicist

theory by India's Nobel laureate and Bharat Ratna awardee C.V. Raman

computer hardware interface

any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications

technology which multiplexes a number of optical carrier signals onto a single optical fiber by using different wavelengths

method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber

device that amplifies an optical signal

telecommunications technology used to provide fiber to the end consumer

standardized protocol that transfers multiple digital bit streams synchronously over optical fiber

Optoelectronic instrument

TV cable network from the curb, fiber optics in front

scattering of light by density variations in a material

allocation of otherwise-unused optical fibre

ITU-T G.984 is the series of standards that define the architecture and operation of gigabit-per-second–capable passive optical network (GPON). It is commonly used to implement the link to the customer (the last kilometre, or last mile) of fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) services, using a point-to-multipoint design. GPON supporting a shared bandwidth of downstream data rates of up to 2.4 Gbit/s and normally upstream rates of up to 1.2 Gbit/s.

coefficient describing the amplitude, intensity, or total power of a transmitted wave relative to an incident wave

simplest form of amplitude-shift keying modulation; represents digital data as the presence or absence of a carrier wave

Networking

Inelastic optical scattering phenomenon

modular optical fiber communications interface

10G-PON (also known as XG-PON or G.987) is a 2010 computer networking standard for data links, capable of delivering shared Internet access rates up to 10 Gbit/s (gigabits per second) over optical fibre. This is the ITU-T's next-generation standard following on from GPON or gigabit-capable PON. Optical fibre is shared by many subscribers in a network known as FTTx in a way that centralises most of the telecommunications equipment, often displacing copper phone lines that connect premises to the phone exchange. Passive optical network (PON) architecture has become a cost-effective way to m

device used to route channels in an optical communication system

type of cable