Title :
Historical perspective on long-haul guided-wave transmission technologies
Author :
Essiambre, R.-J.
Author_Institution :
Crawford Hill Lab., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We survey historical guided-wave technologies developed for high-capacity long-haul transport. This includes hollow waveguides, gas and glass lenses and optical fibers. For optical fibers, we focus on the developments of the last 20 years.
Keywords :
lenses; optical fibre networks; optical waveguides; gas; glass lenses; high-capacity long-haul transport network; hollow waveguides; long-haul guided-wave transmission technology; optical fibers; Lenses; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964256
