Recent progress in system and component technologies for optical fiber communication

摘要

The rapid and explosive growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web is probably the driving force behind the relentless demand for information networks with larger and larger capacities. Technologies for increasing transmission capacity beyond the Tbit/s level will be the key to carrying higher and higher volumes of information traffic between inner core nodes in inter-exchange networks. Focusing on access networks, technologies for achieving FTTH are the key to providing various kinds of advanced services in conjunction with computer use and video delivery. We describe recent advances in system and component technologies for fiber-optic communication with respect to inter-exchange networks and access networks.