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Time to Open the 2-μm Window?
Extending fiber communications to a longer wavelength could help ease capacity issues—and will require intense development in fiber technology, active and passive semiconductor components, and silicon photonics.
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Autonomous vehicles, lidar sensing, augmented reality, the Internet of Things (IoT) everywhere and anywhere—these are just a few of the applications of today and tomorrow that require access to big data and low-latency decision-making storage, access and networks. Only optical-fiber networks can manage such high data transport. But for how long?
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