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Enabling technologies identified as ripe for development include items related to fiber cables, high-performance transmitters, improved receiver modules, and 1
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Technologies needing continuing research include coherent communication systems, components for wavelength-division multiplexing, low-noise avalanche photodiodes, optical amplifiers, external modulators, fibers with low loss and low dispersion over extended bandwidths, and practical integrated optics technologies. Much of the potential for future growth of fiber optics will come from local area networks, metropolitan area networks, and broadband integrated service digital networks.
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The archival storage industry is even larger, so that the information storage application is likewise greater than $100 billion per year. Optical storage media offer higher density storage by a factor of 500 times or so and thus offer potentially lower cost.
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The barrier to increased use does not seem so much the development of appropriate technology as a need for standardization and demonstration of the advantages of well-engineered all-optical systems based upon these sensors. Focal plane arrays using primarily charge coupled and charge injection device concepts have, in the last two decades, led to a revolution in data handling and processing of radiation-induced signals in the infrared and visible regions.
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· Government contractors who receive a percentage of sales for their independent research should devote a sizable fraction to projects with a life span of 5 to 10 years. meet: The panel addresses the following recommendations to the federal govern· Government should play a more active role in assessing technological opportunities and catalyzing development of technology in industry.
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