Faster, More Accurate Filters for All-Optical Networks
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The increased need for speed and precision in a variety of communication networks has spurred the quest to develop high-speed, high-capacity, packet-switched, all-optical fiber networks. Networks face bottlenecks, among them the slowness of electronic switches. In a project that started in 1994, Micron Optics, Inc., a small company from Atlanta, GA, was awarded funds by the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) to develop the technology to increase the speed and accuracy of fiber Fabry-Perot tunable filters (FFP-TF) using ferroelectric liquid crystals. Although Micron Optics was unable to accomplish this goal, the company was able to miniaturize the FFP-TF, and this improved device is currently being used in the mechanical sensing, optical performance, and test equipment markets.
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