AWG Advances Foster Optimism, Momentum

by G. Ferris Lipscomb fibers.org News, 4 Jul 2005 New developments in arrayed-waveguide-grating (AWG) technology have allowed AWGs to regain dominance in high-channel-count applications and earn significant share at low channel counts. AWGs provide optical mux/demux in DWDM systems, efficiently placing 40 or even 80 different DWDM wavelengths onto an optical fibre and extracting those wavelengths at the other end of the transmission. Read more