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Ackground TO Esearch: Chapter 1. Introduction

This document discusses the background and history of optical communication systems and their increasing importance for applications requiring high bandwidth over short distances. It covers how technological progress in optical communications has been driven by both long haul and emerging short haul applications like intracity networks and local loops.

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Ackground TO Esearch: Chapter 1. Introduction

This document discusses the background and history of optical communication systems and their increasing importance for applications requiring high bandwidth over short distances. It covers how technological progress in optical communications has been driven by both long haul and emerging short haul applications like intracity networks and local loops.

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Chapter 1.

Introduction

Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO RESEARCH
Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous increase in Internet,
multimedia, telecommuting and image processing applications. These applications
require gigabyte bandwidths over distances of hundreds of meters, low latency and high
interconnection densities on limited budgets. The optical communication system, with
its advantages in bandwidth (optical carrier frequency ~ 100 THz), small size and
weight, electrical isolation, immunity to interference and crosstalk as well as low
transmission loss has been critical in the development of these applications.

1.2 BACKGROUND TO RESEARCH


In the past, technological progress in optical communications has often been
driven by long haul applications. However, short-haul telecommunication applications
(ranging from intracity and local loop) have been given a new lease of life as computer
processor speeds continue to reach the giga-hertz regime and as the bit width of data
continues to expand [1].
More important than the rise of speed, is the growing trend towards computer
networking. As large numbers of high-speed processors are linked together, inter-
processor buses will no longer be confined to the distances of a backplane but explode
into distances beyond shelf-to-shelf, room-to-room and the LAN level [2]. Therefore,
the appeal of a compact, low-loss, low-cost optical bus whose performance reaches
multi-Gbyte/s levels is rapidly becoming very attractive.

1.2.1 BACKGROUND TO RESEARCH


Thus with the emergence of high speed optical interconnects based on vertical
cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs), gigabit-per-second optical data links are now
commercially viable. Parallel optical data links, which provide a compact a potentially

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