An optical communications repeater is used in a fiber-optic communications system to regenerate an optical signal. Such repeaters are used to extend the...

are several different types of repeaters; a telephone repeater is an amplifier in a telephone line, an optical repeater is an optoelectronic circuit that...

be regenerated at intermediate points in the link by optical communications repeaters. Repeaters add substantial cost to a communication system, and so...

(optical regenerator), an optical communications repeater that performs reamplification, reshaping, and retiming Intelsat 3R, a former communications satellite...

telephone traffic, then data communications traffic. These early cables used copper wires in their cores, but modern cables use optical fiber technology to carry...

with repeater spacing of about 50 km. The capacity of fiber optic networks has increased in part due to improvements in components, such as optical amplifiers...

of Economic Opportunity Optical-electrical-optical conversion of data, often with respect to an optical communications repeater Opto-electronic oscillator...

832 mi). Each consists of eight fiber pairs and there are twenty optical communications repeaters on each segment. Each segment has a speed of 10 gigabits per...

of long-distance fiber systems by reducing or eliminating optical-electrical-optical repeaters, in 1986 and 1987 respectively. The emerging field of photonic...

cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable but containing one or more optical fibers that are used to...

Information Administration. 1996-08-23. "What is an Optical Network Terminal (ONT)?". Verizon Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 2012-10-06...

An amateur radio repeater is an electronic device that receives a weak or low-level amateur radio signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher...

both switches and repeater hubs provide point-to-point connections on the physical layer. However, on the data link layer, a repeater hub provides point-to-multipoint...

point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, optical fibers, wireless communication using radio spectrum, storage media and...

communications cables to interconnect continents. There are two basic types of fiber optics, single-mode optical fiber (SMF) and multi-mode optical fiber...

relevant in the fields of telecommunication, computer networking and optical communications. The system supports high bandwidth demands from applications like...

important in optical communication and laser physics. They are used as optical repeaters in the long distance fiber-optic cables which carry much of the world's...

passive reflector for radio communications. Courier 1B, built by Philco, also launched in 1960, was the world's first active repeater satellite. Satellites...

realize than standard optical switches. Finally, one requires a quantum repeater to transport qubits over long distances. Repeaters appear in between end...

signal or signals. A communications satellite’s channels are called transponders because each is a separate transceiver or repeater. With digital video...

transmission line. Optical fiber, which has emerged as the most commonly used transmission medium for long-distance communications, is a thin strand of...

through an optical coupler. The majority of the repeater components are passive. These include EDF, fused-fibre optical couplers and optical isolators...

voice communications have gradually been supplemented by data. The physical limitations of metallic media prompted the development of optical fibre....

across the repeater, or repeater pair, even if a different physical layer may be used between the ends of the repeater, or repeater pair. Repeaters require...

repeaters when the distance between them exceeded the limitations of ThickNet cable. The initial specification, known as Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link...

requires a series of repeaters forming a microwave relay network. It is possible to use microwave signals in over-the-horizon communications using tropospheric...

fiber-optic communications, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is a technology which multiplexes a number of optical carrier signals onto a single optical fiber...

15 GHz SHF (Ka Band) towards the satellite. S band is also used in optical communications to refer to the wavelength range 1460 nm to 1530 nm.[citation needed]...

systems can extend their range by using sets of simple repeater stations because the communications transmitted on any single frequency always travel in...

wireless media. By using optical fiber, the radio signals can gap larger transmission distances, reducing the need of additional repeaters or amplifiers. In...