1.

Christian Huygens

2. Bockham and Kao

3. Theodore Maiman

4. Infrared

5. Infrared

6. Blue

7. Laser

8. Photo resist

9. Higher refractive index than the cladding

10. Modes

11. Attenuation

12. 900 THz

13. The same

14. Mode

15. Spectral width

16. Quantum theory

17. 800 THz

18. Frequency

19. Splitting of white light into its component colors

20. Low wattage light bulb

21. Inverted

22. Virtual

23. Larger

24. Polarization

25. Polarization

26. Modal dispersion

27. 0.09 dB

28. 0.38 dB

29. 200,000 hours

30. 50,000 hours

31. Reversed bias

32. Step-index multimode

33. Coherent and stimulated

34. Fiber optics

35. LED

36. Semiconductor

37. Argon-ion

38. Pulse energy x repetition rate

39. 6.63 x 10-22 joules

40. 20 cm
41. Atmospheric absorption

42. Doppler shift of moving atoms and molecules

43. Pulses of 694 nm red light

44. Molten

45. LED

46. APD

47. 0.26

48. Core

49. Semiconductor

50. 375 x 1012 Hz

51. Consumer TV

52. Grater than

53. Reflection

54. Single-mode graded-index

55. dB/km

56. 2 km

57. Modal dispersion

58. Glass

59. Cladding

60. Slower
61. No electrical safety problems

62. Wider bandwidth

63. X-rays

64. 400 to 750 nm

65. 300,000,000 m/s

66. Bending of light waves

67. Index of refraction

68. 1.3 um

69. Single-mode step-index

70. Single-mode step-index

71. Single mode step-index

72. Reflection

73. 5 mi

74. 4.57 dB

75. 29.1 dB

76. Laser

77. Infrared

78. Forward bias

79. Monochromatic

80. Coherent
81. Photovoltaic diode

82. Avalanche photodiode

83. Reverse bias

84. 400 Mbits/s

85. 3 repeaters

86. Powerful, reliable light source

87. Interference

88. Monochromatic and in-phase

89. Holography

90. 99.9999 %

91. Plastic-clad-silica

92. No fixed limit, dependent on bandwidth and mode spacing

93. Infrared absorption

94. Silica-clad-silica

95. 1960

96. Spectral response

97. Thermally generated carriers in the diode

98. Ampere/watt

99. Dispersion

100. 940 nm
101. Synchronous Optical Network

102. An attenuation increase caused by bends radiating from the side of the fiber

103. 700 1200 nm

104. Higher losses

105. Optical Time Domain Reflectometer

106. All of these

107. Noise

108. 0.01

109. 0.02

110. 0.05

111. Stepped index operation

112. Refractive index

113. Both fusion and butt

114. Optoisolator

115. 4 %

116. Antireflection coating

117. Cladding boundary at high angle

118. Refraction

119. It has high losses

120. Light power out of a fiber

121. Cancels reflective waves

122. Amplification of optical signal

123. Snells law

124. 5

125. Wavelength dependence of the index of refraction

126. Dependence of the propagation constant on the mode number

127. Absorption and Rayleigh scattering

128. Dispersion

129. Product of the bandwidth and distance

130. Quantum efficiency

131. Holes and electrons

132. PMT

133. Intensity

134. Photocurrent

135. PMT

136. 0.15 dB

137. White

138. 40 GHz

139. 0.1

140. Polymer jacket

141. Directly proportional to the Plancks constant

142. 1.5

143. 2.0

144. Angstroms

145. 0.01 dB or less

146. Optical power meter

147. Beam-splitting coupler

148. Diffuse reflection

149. Lithium Niobate

150. Intensity modulation and polarization modulation

151. photophone

152. 3 repeaters

153. approximately 1.0 MHz

154. Baird and Hansel

155. 400 Mbits/s

156. 40 GHz

157. Van Heel, Hopkins and Kapany

158. reverse bias

159. Kapany

160. Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow

161. Theodore Maiman

162. a 1500-pair cable

163. Kao and Bockham

164. a light directed toward a surface

165. Kao and Bockham

166. Infrared

167. Avalanche photodiode

168. 770 nm to 10^6 nm

169. separating light into its component frequencies

170. Visible light

171. coherent

172. Avalanche photodiode

173. 390 nm to 770 nm

174. Ultraviolet

175. The angle is determined by the index of the materials

176. 10 nm to 390 nm

177. monochromatic

178. static fatigue

179. the point at which light has gone from the refractive mode to the reflective mode

180. index of refraction

181. Plastic core and glass cladding

182. stress corrosion

183. Planks law

184. forward bias

185. excited state

186. Spontaneous emission

187. Absorption

188. infrared

189. Photons

190. Photometry

191. a number which compares the transparency of a material with that of air

192. Radiometry

193. laser

194. Luminous flux density; Lumens per unit area

195. Optical power

196. Optical power

197. the number of wavelengths each fiber can support

198. Radiant flux

199. violet

200. 29.1 dB
201. red

202. refractive index

203. incident angle

204. angle of refraction

205. Gallium arsenide

206. 4.57 dB

207. 33.47 degrees

208. critical angle

209. the lower the speed of light

210. Acceptance cone half-angle

211. numerical aperture

212. The amount of external light the fiber will accept is greater.

213. Single mode

214. Multimode

215. the source, the link and the detector

216. more than 700 nm

217. 372

218. index profile

219. step-index

220. graded index

221. power loss

222. reflection

223. absorption loss

224. ultraviolet absorption

225. infrared absorption

226. ion resonance absorption

227. single-mode step-index

228. -35 dBm

229. wavelength dispersion

230. using a monochromatic light source

231. Microbending

232. constant-radius bending

233. 0.5 dB

234. modal dispersion

235. Use a single-mode fiber

236. Bandwidth Distance Product

237. 2 GHz

238. 20 Mbps and 10 Mbps

239. 30 to 50 nm

240. 1 nm to 3 nm
241. detector sensitivity

242. LED

243. single-mode step-index

244. Responsivity

245. dark current

246. transit time

247. spectral response

248. the ratio of the diode output current to the input optical power

249. light sensitivity

250. gas lasers

251. liquid lasers

252. 1.3 micrometer

253. solid lasers

254. semiconductor lasers

255. consumer TV

256. greater than

257. 1:10

258. refraction

259. single-mode graded-index

260. dB/km
261. 2 km

262. situations in which cost of equipment is not a factor

263. modal dispersion

264. glass

265. cladding

266. less

267. lower cost

268. 70 percent of the core diameter and 70% of the fiber NA should be filled with light.

269. wider bandwidth

270. x-rays

271. 400 to 750 nm

272. 2 to 15 micrometer

273. bending of light

274. 50/125/0.2

275. multimode step-index

276. the total power available minus the attenuation losses

277. step index