SEPTEMBER SYMPOSIUM PLANS (OPTICAL) FIBER-RICH MENU.A Symposium on Optical Fiber Measure-ments was held in September 2000, in Boulder, CO, devoted to measurements on fibers, integrated optics, components and systems. This biennial symposium is sponsored by NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. in cooperation with the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society The IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society is a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It is also known by its acronym LEOS. In the hierarchy of IEEE, the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society' is one of close to 40 technical societies organized under and the Optical Society of America The Optical Society of America (OSA) is a scientific society dedicated to advancing the study of light—optics and photonics—in theory and application, by means of worldwide research, scientific publishing, conferences and exhibitions, partnership with industry, and the . The symposium consists entirely of experimental and analytical papers on all measurement aspects of guided lightwave technology. Attendees focused on measurements on optical fiber telecommunications, sensors, fiber lasers/amplifiers, integrated optics, planar wave-guides, photonic crystals, switches, couplers, systems (long haul, LANs/subscriber loops, WDM and TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. ), standards, and field and laboratory instrumentation. The types of measurements discussed included attenuation/ loss, chromatic dispersion, cross talk, cutoff wavelength, effective area, effective index, four-wave mixing efficiency, index of refraction Index of refraction A constant number for any material for any given color of light that is an indicator of the degree of the bending of the light caused by that material. Mentioned in: Eye Glasses and Contact Lenses profile, mode-field diameter, non-linear coefficients, polarization dependent loss and polarization-mode dispersion. |
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