Lightwave technology: expectations, problems, and achievements
- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
- Vol. 6 (6) , 1265-1272
- https://doi.org/10.1109/2944.902177
Abstract
We review selected topics in the development of lightwave technology and discuss a number of unexpected problems that changed the course of progress, ideas that did not mature toward applications and details of innovations that are facilitating ongoing developments.Keywords
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