The popularity of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and their association with next-generation opto-electronic devices and biomedical applications has grown rapidly over the last years. Current research focuses on various synthetic routes as a means to modify QD characteristics to satisfy specic optical and magnetic requirements for applications such as biological imaging, telecommunications, p...

Abstract-Explosion in Internet applications has stimulated active research activities in expanding the capability of the current telecommunication networks. These activities include implementing faster electronics to process the higher data bit rates, or developing Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) techniques, and novel optical networks components to increase the information carrying capac...

We demonstrate a cascaded optical link for ultrastable frequency dissemination comprised of two compensated links of 150 km and a repeater station. Each link includes 114 km of Internet fiber simultaneously carrying data traffic through a dense wavelength division multiplexing technology, and passes through two routing centers of the telecommunication network. The optical reference signal is in...

Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology has been improving steadily in recent years, with existing systems capable of providing huge amounts of bandwidth on a single fiber link. WDM systems are currently being deployed in long-distance telecommunication networks on a point-to-point basis, with the optical signals being converted back to electronics at each node. The electronic switchi...

It is expected that users of telecommunication services such as Internet, Web browsing, and tele-education will increase dramatically. This has greatly increased the demand for high bandwidth and high capacity communication systems. Advances in electro-optic technologies have made optical communication a good networking choice for the increasing demands of high channel bandwidth and low communi...