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A bottleneck for optical fibres

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Optical fibres carry light signals at extremely high frequencies, and offer enormous bandwidth for transmitting data. But nonlinear effects may limit their capacity to carry information.

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Figure 1: Dense wavelength-division-multiplexed (DWDM) optical-fibre system.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, California, USA

    Joseph M. Kahn

  2. Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong

    Keang-Po Ho

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Kahn, J., Ho, KP. A bottleneck for optical fibres. Nature 411, 1007–1009 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35082671

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