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Nonlinear optical lightwave local network
Nonlinear effects in fibers have been primarily seen as a limitation to lightwave system performance. A recently demonstrated network instead turns nonlinear optics to advantage by using stimulated Brillouin scattering to provide channel selection in a densely packed wavelength division multiplexed network.
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